Absolutely gorgeous, just like the past three volumes of this series. The art is breathtakingly real and lively.

So far, I have loved seeing the day in the life of animals that are still alive. In this volume, I got to see a day in the life of several dinosaurs. The pictures even portray how the dinosaurs feel. I was very curious to see how the landscape, dinosaurs, and day would be done, and I was very happy with the outcome. I hope there are more volumes to come. I would recommend this to all ages.

I didn’t read any of the previous volumes of Love. Each volume showcases a different story with different animals so I believe you can start reading the series by any of the volumes.

This series is known for not having any text. The plot is told entirely through the images.

Volume 4 was about dinosaurs and I loved the art. It’s a different concept, brilliantly executed. It showed the struggles of the animals living during that period and the various species that populated the Earth in a truly beautiful way.

While the art is very good, there's not really a story here. It's just a bunch of dinosaurs running around eating each other.

Received an advance copy from NetGalley and Magnetic Press in exchange for an honest review.

'Love: The Dinosaur, Volume 4'
by Frédéric Brrémaud and Federico Bertolucci is the 4th in this series of wordless animal tales. I enjoyed it as much as the previous entries in the series.

This time the story is a bit of a departure from previous volumes that dealt with animals that are still alive. It's also much the same in the action, violence and survival that the creatures go through. Even though the T-Rex is on the cover, the story seems to be told through the eyes of a much smaller dinosaur.

The inevitable demise of the dinosaurs is shown, but there is plenty of dinosaur fighting action before that shows. The art can be a bit graphic, so really young or somewhat squeamish readers should be a bit warned off.

This series is really great, and I've enjoyed every entry. There is a sketchbook included at the end showing designs in process.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Magnetic Press, Diamond Book Distributors, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

I've read one other book in this series and I think the concept is great. Each book follows an animal over a period of time, depicting its natural environment. The entire story is told using illustrations; there are no words used in the book at all.

Given the format of the book, the illustrations need to be fantastic. I feel that is accomplished in this book. The creators have an opportunity to draw a lot of different dinosaurs in this short work. Those depictions are amazing. They take something that is both familiar and foreign and breathe life into it. The natural surroundings are used wonderfully to highlight the animals and give a sense of the environment.

This volume fell a little short for me because the sequence of events shown in the illustrations didn't always make sense. It's not that they weren't put in the right order, but they jumped around at times where I lost sight of the little guy that is central to the book. These tangents just made it feel less cohesive to me.

The book is all about the art and should be picked up for that alone.

Love this series! It's an absolute joy "reading" this series. This might even be the best yet because of the subject. DINOSAURS! I absolutely adore dinosaurs. The illustrations depict moments that I can see dinosaurs experiencing. I grew up watching the "Land Before Time" series and reading this book made me relive some of my favorite moments of childhood. Absolutely Stunning! Recommend!

This series continues to be stunning, in both the artwork and the wordless, expressive visual storytelling.

Frédéric Brrémaud continues to bring to life an artistic interpretation of love in the animal kingdom, this time with dinosaurs. A small raptor is hanging out with larger dinosaurs as cover from bigger predators such as the T-Rex that is stalking him. Every time he thinks he is safe, the T-Rex shows up. Plenty of lush scenery to enjoy and dinos to contemplate. A nice quiet read (would be loud if you create your own sound effects).

And here's another volume of "Love" graphic novels that show you adventures and lives of a chosen animal. Instead of a currently living one, like it was in previous volumes, here we'll follow a dinosaur trying to survive.

If you remember my review of the 3rd volume, you'll know this is a completely wordless story. Everything is told through rather lovely drawn images with all these fantastic, prehistoric creatures and environment. It looks great! There few extra pages with some lovely illustrations and sketches of various dinosaurs.

But, I have to admit when it goes to the story I preferred the previous volume about a lion. Somehow the little dino hasn't awakened so many feelings in me. It was interesting, but rather as an adventure and not what the title might've suggested. Unless it's about the love of safety.

Still, I think it's a fascinating series and the graphics are lovely, so I'd be happy to check out further volumes.

So this is the fourth installment of Brrémaud's "love"series, and I have been enjoying them all very much. Like all of the previous volumes, it is a wordless graphic novel that shows the realistic goings on of a single species, with other creatures as the predator, the prey, or bystander. There's no holding back with any of the volumes in how animals behave, and it certainly wasn't for this Dinosaur volume. Constant battles for food and land, showing other species who is more powerful. The artwork continues to be fantastic, and it took me longer to complete this book because I was mesmerised at how striking the artwork is. I've never really been a huge fan of dinosaurs, but this was something different. I felt it was a bit of a step away from the previous volumes though, showing species that don't exist anymore and at a guess of how they behaved without previous first hand knowledge, its all imagination. I don't fault that at all, and I'm interested to see what the next volume will be centered on.

by Frederic Brremaud and illustrated by Frederico Bertolucci, each of them following an animal type (a tiger, a lion) through their days. Dinosaurs, thanks to their massive popularity would seem an obvious choice in the series, and they get prime treatment in a gritty, vividly illustrated adventure tale.

Interestingly enough, the story starts small, focusing on an insect and a small shrew-like mammal. They’re quickly disturbed though by the massive foot of a sauropod crashing down as it wanders by while munching the foliage. Just a few panels later, a smaller dinosaur (a bambiraptor I believe, though I’m not sure) enters the picture, and over the next 60 or so pages, we follow these two, and then a T-rex tracking them, as they move through various terrain and past various dinosaur types. All of it culminating in an epic battle against a stormy backdrop, which in itself presages what we all know is coming—the fiery end of an era.

Despite the lack of words, one truly gathers a sense of narrative here as the images progress and though they’re not anthropomorphized — the creatures consistently act as animals — one does feel a sense of individuality and if not “personality” something roughly akin to it, even if it’s our own nature that puts it there. Because these are animals presented as such, we get the full “red in tooth and claw treatment”: predation, goring, jugular-izing (as my son once liked to call it), and entrail-ripping. Brremaud does a nice job with tension/suspense balanced by moments of peace, and it all builds wonderfully to a truly cinematic ending.

Bertolucci’s illustrations, as mentioned, are wonderfully, colorfully vivid and realistic. The dinosaurs are unique and individualized and the terrain sharply depicted, creating a true sense of place. As well, the visuals show a wide range as Bertolucci zooms in and out between close-ups of individual bodies or even parts of bodies and wide-open landscapes. We also get the full range of physical settings, following animals in the sky, along the ground, and underwater. And the depiction of the firestorm at the end is done on an epic scale.

Despite the wordless nature, the situational narrative combined with the vibrant illustrations makes for a compelling story filled with action and. Highly recommended.

Gorgeous and often downright depressing, any fan of dinosaurs should have this. Full review at http://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/01/review-and-preview-love-the-dinosaur/

A great story, with beautiful and powerful illustrations! Loved it!