I loved the art and the writing and I had a great time reading it. Thank you for giving me a chance to check it before the official release.

I love space horror so thought I’d give this a go.
The story is creepy and you can feel the sense of dread. The illustrations are well done and perfectly encapsulate the eerie environment.
The premise of the story is a little far fetched but that really didn’t bother me too much as of course science fiction normally goes into that territory.
A great read for fans of science fiction and horror.

In Bountiful Garden, six teenage scientists awaken ten years early from their cryostasis. They have been selected by Earth to begin a new civilization on a planet far away. Their ship is trapped above an unknown planet. The team splits up with three exploring the planet and three attempting to fix the ship.

I feel like I’ve read this plot, especially its conclusion, many times before. Unfortunately, there is nothing to recommend this particular version. 3 stars.

Thanks to Mad Cave and NetGalley for a copy in exchange for my honest review.

This was creepy & gorgeously done - loved the mystery of it all, but I wish each of the characters had been given a bit more "screen time" on their own individually so we could get to know them. I'm excited to see where this goes - space horror, when done well, can be incredible spooky!!

The watercolor-y art in this is SO GOOD, I loved it! Super creepy sci-fi horror featuring a cast that's younger than you normally see in these, which was neat! Despite the ages, they dialogue and story don't feel juvenile - certain parts were honestly horrifying in theme, space always gets me.

I will say that the main part of the plot hinges on something mostly unbelievable - a group of kids is sent into space in a hypersleep sort of state so that they'll be 10 years older once they arrive & can work to research the planet. It seems like it'd be very jarring to wake up in my 20s after falling asleep as a pre-teen/teen, which is... an odd choice, haha. But overall, if you can ignore that, it's really cool!

If you need more: TENTACLES.

Thank you so much to net galley! I bought the first issue of this quite a few months ago and have been wanting to continue. I was so excited when I saw this available for review. I really enjoyed this and I don’t know if there will be more in the series but I would love it if there was more!

After reading this book, I felt the fear of the unknown rack through my body. The tense atmosphere the novel develops over the span of five issues is immense, one that you can feel invade your personal space, putting pressure on your chest as you read on. I love the art style and the aesthetic, gritty and realistic while still maintaining a sort of sordid charm.

My only issue with this is how some characters don't get much of a backstory before getting axed. I like the ending and the hints of the final horrors our characters will face. A must read for anyone intrigued in knowing things man was never meant to know.

Note: All views expressed are my own, and I have recieved an ARC from NetGalley

Fun, creepy, and fast-paced, but nothing really new in the genre that I haven't read before. Still a good read if you want something short and tense. You get plunged into the action right away. I also thought the artwork really worked for the atmosphere of the story. The full-page illustrations were amazing.

"Passengers" meets "Alien" meets "Solaris", when a mission out of Earth, populated by six hot-housed teenagers, has its progress and cryogenics disturbed years early. Three stay on board to find out why the heck everything is in a hiatus, when nothing errant seems to be affecting the ship, and three go down to the planet below them that shouldn't even exist. And get to hear voices...

That clearly is where the majority of readers think this is derivative and all been done before, and no, those three titles aren't the only ones I could have pointed out, for this riffs off several more. Luckily for the book then, I am one of those who appreciates no end of the derivative if it is done well enough and combines things I've not seen together before. And by that I don't mean things not seen before because they don't need to ever be combined (a zombie hoard killed off by a peanut allergy, perhaps) but things that can serve to make a sensible, rounded story. Like "Passengers" meets "Alien" meets "Solaris". I didn't love the art – it made some set pieces look fine, but didn't exactly generate much love for the characters, even the one trying to grow a La Roux hairdo. But what I did like was the story – yes it felt a touch rushed towards the end and didn't fully surprise, but it's the kind of effortless entertainment I enjoy.

An odd, incoherent book. A small team of children and/or teens has been sent out into space, in some kind of hypersleep, to terraform and colonise a planet. They are woken up ten years too early, and already my brain is trying to make sense of this set-up. Because these children behave and react like children, which seems strange - if you're going to send kids on such a mission, you'd expect them to be conditioned up to their eyeballs, trained within an inch of their lives, etc.

Not these kids - one basically behaves like an authoritative sociopath, another can barely move out of debilitating fear. This team seems to be wholly unprepared. To say these kids panic, would be an understatement.

Also, I guess the idea of sending unaccompanied children is so they can age during hypersleep? That must be a terrifying psychological shock - you enter sleep as a ten year old, you wake up as a twenty year old with the mind of a ten year old..?

And then there's the planet their ship is hovering over. Here we're entering Alien territory. They decide to explore it, because.. the plot demands it? They have enough food for the next five years, so the search for supplies doesn't seem like the urgent reason it's presented as.

Because the story is missing narrative thrust and clear motives, things seem to happen just because the plot needs them to happen, and it becomes most painfully clear in the end - there is no real, satisfying end. It just sort of.. stops.

All that said, I did quite like the art - spotty in places, but quite atmospheric.

Six teens wake from cryostasis years early and try to determine what is going wrong with their ship. They are orbiting an unknown planet that is not on their maps. Faced with the reality that, even if they fix the ship, waking two years early means shortages in their food supply three take the shuttle down to the planet surface to search for food sources. What follows is a creepy descent into horror as one by one the teens succumb to a malevolent power.

Pros - the artwork is wonderful, it sets the mood very well. The story, while somewhat predictable, was well executed.

Cons- the NetGalley ARC is a protected PDF which presented several issues the first being that I could only read it on my laptop as it refused to open on my tablet. Reading it on the laptop made for an uncomfortable experience and detracted from being able to really immerse myself in the story.

NOTE TO PUBLISHER - A further issue I find with ARCs presented as protected PDFs is that they expire and disappear from my device, in this case on what would be well before the actual release date which is when my reviews go live on our newszine web site. I usually skim through a book and then go over my reviews prior to public posting after release date but I will be unable to do so for this graphic novel as it will expire at least 6 weeks prior to release.

Bountiful Garden focuses on a group of teenagers who have been suddenly awoken out of a cryogenic slumber that was meant to last until they made it to the new planet they were tasked with creating habitable. Their new task is to figure out what has happened to their ship and why they are now awake. I had previously read Ivy Noel Weir’s other graphic novel, Archival Quality, so I was very eager to read this one. It did not disappoint! I was incredibly unsettled throughout the collection. The writing and the art work so well together to create a well-rounded story that I couldn’t stop reading. I’m a huge fan of horror books set in space, especially those that feel claustrophobic when trapped in one ship. If you’re looking for a graphic novel to unsettle you and make you anxiously look up at the stars, look no for further than Bountiful Garden!

Unfortunately I can't read this book because I have nothing to read it on. It does look very interesting though, and I would check it out if I got the chance.