This was based on a short story, and it showed. It was a one note story, and it just kept hitting that one note.And although it is science fiction, there is something that bothered me, how a world could live without the sun. How there could be a full moon, without the sun, and how anything could grow. How could anyone survive?But, lets say that somehow all that is possible, somehow. Then why did it take a generation to figure out the solution?Other than that, the art work was good. Thanks to Net...

The book focused more on a relationship and I kept thinking about photosynthesis...

Beautiful art but a pointless story, IMO.

This a beautifully illustrated, poignant story. The story begins with a tragic event that causes the sun to disappear. That in itself is a powerful premise that immediately pulled me in. In this new, sunless world, people adapt, but the family of the man considered responsible for the event bear the brunt of the townspeople's anger throughout the years. A good portion of the book explores how the community responds and their efforts to bring light back to the world. At its heart, however, this b...

An "it's the end of the world as we know it" story in graphic novel format from Roxane Gay (author of Bad Feminist and Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body). This is a graphic novel adaptation of Gay's NYT bestselling short story “We Are the Sacrifice of Darkness” (which I have not read). After a miner flies an airship the the sun, the Earth is plunged into near darkness. The book moves back and forth in time to show the Before and After of this event. I was a little confused at first but I think that

This story was really interesting and eerily similar in some ways to the COVID-19 experience. It makes me wonder when the original short story was written and what was added for this graphic novel expansion! The art is also beautiful and hinted at some world building that made me want to know more.

The Sacrifice of Darkness is more than a Graphic Novel. It is a thought provoking piece of work covering a multitude of societal constructs that many in this day and age would prefer to gloss over. Roxanne Gay delves into class relations, expectations and consequences, bullying, single parent (mother) households, mental illness, death, grief, and the ultimate resurrection of life and hope. The artwork is beautiful and the storyline written to perfection. There was nothing I did not like. I would...

Beautiful, moving, dark yet hopeful and super timely. Gorgeous to look at. I'm not a big 'love story' person but wow, two for one special in this book! Great job.

A perfectly lovely SF dystopia type story elevated by very beautiful illustrations that capture the darkness so well without being overly literal

Thank you NetGalley and Boom! Studios for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review, unfortunately I was bored out of my mind reading this. I found myself not reading it after awhile, but just looking at the pictures to get a feel for what was going on more than having any interest in actually reading it. It started out promising and interesting, but for me it didn't really escalate from there. I enjoyed the art and the color scheme, but ultimately it fell short for me.

A romance set in a nonsensical science fiction world. A miner flies a spacecraft into the sun extinguishing its light (for absolutely no reason). But all the town needs to do is build some gas lamps and everything is fine. It's a strange dichotomy of world building. The setting seems to be a depression era coal mining town except they have the occasional spaceship that is available to snuff out the sun. Then there is talk in the town of sacrificing the miner's family as the darkness lasts for ye...

An upset man flies to the sun and plunges his planet into a darkness that is somehow not catastrophic, but just kind of nerve grating? "Blood sacrifice!" gets shouted all over the place as his family must deal with the ramifications of the irritation. But love happens.Get allegorical if you want, but the story still needs to make some kind of sense, eh?

I am continuously impressed by the genius of Roxane Gay.

Five stars for the art, one or maybe two for the story. It's an allegory, perhaps, but didn't make sense. Am usually a big fan of Gay's but this one missed the mark. Even the beautiful watercolor art can't quite redeem it.

Not a fan of this. A man flies into the sun and it disappears. Instead of being an end of the world sci-fi story, this is about people punishing the family whose member, Hiram Hightower, was responsible. Life goes on almost as usual (they just need to light lamps during daytime hours). So it’s not sci-fi, and it’s not all that believable. One problem is that Roxane Gay romanticizes working class people. The working class people here are miners, and they appear to love their job and even want the...

this is definitely a thought-provoking graphic novel with some social commentary that is early relevant today..I'm not much of a graphic reader so I don't feel equipped enough to critique it but overall it is quick and I enjoy it..love the art!! and of course, I loved the romance part..

So I feel like reviewing this particular graphic novel is tantamount to revealing the most personal psychoanalytical details of someone's Rorschach test results, but here we go!This was depressing. The social commentary on class and greed is bleak enough -- it's barely even scifi; it's just our terribly flawed world described differently -- but to me this is a story about how the best among us are often among the most persecuted; how pain and intolerance is piled upon them to unbearable degrees

A quick read, but I wasn't feeling this story. It's set in a future where a miner's trip to the sun has sent Earth into years of darkness. The speculative elements aren't the focus of the story, so Gay doesn't discuss how humanity would be able to survive for years without sunlight. The human side of the story didn't particularly interest me. Joshua Hightower, son of the man who doused the sun, is having a romance that parallels his father's. The characters felt flat, and it felt like we were to...

Really pretty! I’d read the short story and vaguely remembered the plot, but I really enjoyed this gorgeous, fleshed out, version.

I really couldn't get over the premise: a miner, oppressed by the greedy government and driven mad by the mine's darkness, flies a spaceship into the sun, dousing its light. So like...that would be the end of the world right? No light, no heat, no solar winds, etc.But no, the world keeps on turning in The Sacrifice of Darkness. Other miners even herald the miner for his sacrifice! Absurd! "Thank God that miner blew up the sun, what a sacrifice, we're all in awe, except we can't see each other or...