“Tell us what you crave – we’ll make it happen”
Everyone on campus wakes up to have a new app on their phone called Crave. If you tell the app what you lust for, then it will fulfill your desires.
This graphic novel touched on certain issues that have arisen in our current culture. Social media creates an arena that indoctrinates people to become obsessed with likes and numbers. People feel like they need that external validation, that next dopamine hit. Crave also touches on the issues of what happens when you let your desires run your life. I think in its entirety, it discussed a lot of important issues that our society is dealing with today.
It is worth the read.

#ThxNetGalley

I was excited to see my request for this book was approved, but I was unable to read it in the format provided by NetGalley, making it an impossible quest to complete. I wish to read this book in the future as the premise is intriguing and the cover is fun. Thank you to NetGalley for approving my request, and I apologize for my inefficacy as it stands.

3.5 stars—An entertaining, fast-paced story with wonderful artwork and an interesting premise. We follow a group of college students as they face off against Crave, an app which promises to give you exactly what you want, but there is always a catch. Lust and jealousy give way to violence as David, Alexandra, Sofia, and Albert race to stop Crave before it causes irrevocable damage. Timely if not a bit dystopian, Crave promises an erotic, fun read. Yet there are a couple things which keep me from bumping it up to four or five stars.

First, as a warning, though the content in no way bothered me, there are scenes which other readers might find to be too sexual. And, indeed, there is quite a bit of that throughout though it is central to the plot and adds interest to the comic overall. My hang-up when it comes to the nudity is the reason given for Alexandra’s boudoir photos (which are some of my favorite images within the comic, mind you). Their existence when explained is a bit lackluster for me, sort of non-committal—like the author wanted to include this style of nudity within their story but didn’t want to align Alexandra too much with the scene? <spoiler> She just does it as a favor to the photographer but isn’t into it all that much herself? I think it would have added to her character for it to be something she genuinely enjoys/desires. </spoiler> Perhaps that is a small knit pick, but these are some of, if not THE, most intriguing images within the book so I felt they deserved a better rational?

In some ways I thought the pacing made sense for the story and how out of control Crave made everything but there were also moments I wished we would slow down a bit if only to feel more realistic. I will admit though that this might be an issue of form rather than plot as, when this was being released as single issued comics, the progression would be tempered simply by virtue of the time between releases. Yet, in this format, the story moved at an incredible fast pace. It was fun and exciting either way, but this is something to keep in mind.

Though my rating is a 3.5, I still found Crave to be a good time and I know there is an audience who would eat this up.

Thank you Netgalley and Image Comics who the advance copy to read and review!

Crave is a graphic novel/comic collection about a phone app appearing on college students phones and helps them get what they want. Whether it be hook up with someone they have a crush on or break up two people, this app makes the seemingly impossible possible.

The plot is interesting, the graphics are good but if this collection were doubled in size the character development could have been stronger. Overall, it is solid work.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book.

This graphic novel was engaging, ravenous, and intriguing! The concept is very cool, and it could be such a wild and cool show which would be binge-able like the book itself.

Wow! Crave is a beautifully illustrated, spicy (🌶️🌶️🌶️), graphic thriller series! It kind of sheds light on the reliance of social media apps that are unnecessary and the Crave app is completely out of control. Taking over people’s lives, enticing and instructing them to do evil or impulsive things. Crave just wants to help you obtain what you desire. The president of the college is definitely up to no good and likely the mastermind behind the launching of the Crave app on campus! This series was a very quick read and it was nice and spicy with an interesting plot! I’d recommend it for sure.

I did not realize this was a comic but ok, I’ll go for it.
The story was disjointed, barely made sense and I can’t even figure out if it was the format or just the story.
But it was also just mostly pornographic drawings and not much else as far as story…
Soooo… yeah… really not my bag at all

I finished this yesterday, just getting some of my netgalley
backlist done. This was alittle less interesting than Faithless.
But you can never trust technology is what you learn in this
one!

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6941524376

Very unique idea! Loved how this story shows how technology can be a detriment to society. There were many moving pieces to this story that all came together and kept me entertained.

Unhinged and chaotic.
This was definitely a 5/5⭐ for me. This graphic novel delivered on everything it promised.
Actually scary because it's very similar to the reality we live in right now.

plot about an app that can allegedly satisfy your "crave" though actually the app can create more chaos in good. The main character, David, didn't care for the app until it enticed him with his longtime crush resulting in him finally breaking things off with his girlfriend after months of being miserable. He and his best friend, Albert, alongside others, realize though the app gave them what they wanted it at times was dangerous and needed to be stopped & so that's just what they did. Through this, they found out their school was just an experiment for the app and even the director was in on it. This results in fights & the school nearly burning down but at the end David & his crush, Alexander are able to stop it and are happily together and so are his friends but are they?? The gives us a happy ending with a cliffhanger, of a possibility of there being a possibly being a second experiment! I wasn't sure if I was going to like this book at all but it proved to be good though the plot was a bit fast-paced. Hopefully there will be another book!!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a free arc in exchange for an honest review.

Crave is an incredibly interesting comic about an app that suddenly appears on everyone’s phone at a school. The crave app promises that it can help students satisfy any of their cravings, from sexual desires, to violent ones. However, this leads to chaos as people feel emboldened to do stupid reckless things just because an app told them to.

I do think this has some interesting commentary about how people are often eager to follow orders without thinking for themselves even if they know it could be dangerous.

With that being said, I couldn’t find any references as to whether this takes place in high school or college. I’m choosing to believe it’s college because some of the students live in dorms (though I know some private high schools have dorms as well); however, with the amount of sexual content in this book I would have preferred more explicit confirmation that the characters are adults.

This is a fun erotic graphic comic series about the dangers of social media and the power it can have over people. This is quite a scary situation of an app going out of control as it controls people’s emotions and love life. It’s a fun series of comics.

3.5 stars.

This felt like a Black Mirror episode!

The whole premise of the Crave app learning from users, and developing in a BAD way as a result - taking on a mind of its own, and connecting to more and more of the surrounding technology in the building - seemed very timely considering current controversies surrounding AI. The whole thing really does feel quite sinister.

The story is very fast paced, and I do wish there'd been room to delve into some aspects of it in more detail. But for what it is (a graphic novel made up of a 6-issue comic book mini series), the author does a decent job of telling a complete story.

The art style and colour palette are pleasing to look at, too.

Read this in one sitting, and would definitely read more by this author :)

Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC.

This was a very quick, spicy read. I have not read anything like this graphic novel before but it was a very interesting concept.

Each volume is very fast paced and there is no filler. Each one picks up right where the last one left off and keeps the story flowing.

I enjoyed our main characters and loved that there were so many different perspectives of the events that were going on.

Thank you NetGalley, Maria Llovet and Image Comics for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own.

This graphic novel was a really fun read! The positioning of it being like Black Mirror felt really accurate for me. This is outside my usual genre, but I really enjoyed it. The concept of the app Crave allowed for some themes of the potential perils that advanced technology can have on our desires for human connection. This theme was especially poignant during the lecture scene where they are discussing social media before the reader witnesses the devastating impact of Crave. At times I thought this theme could have been explored a bit more thoroughly throughout the rest of the story, but in all it all I was glad to see some strong messaging taking place. I also really enjoyed the art, and how the plot would develop through visual cues instead of relying solely on dialogue. Thank you for this quick, spicy read!

Hottttt. How I was unaware that erotic horror was a whole ass genre is insane to me. I loved the story and the art so much that I went on an immediate deep dive of the author as soon as I turned the last page. The story stayed serious amidst the sex and nudity and I imagine that that can be hard to accomplish. Fan for life here and can’t wait for more!

I've read this like 4 times since I got the review copy, it's so good but also kind of scarry with the amount I use social media

The artwork was excellent and the storyline had a good premise--it felt like a black mirror episode. Very intriguing erotic thriller in graphic novel format!

This story was realistic even though it was a work of fiction... I loved the art style and the spiciness was on par! I liked how it all came together at the end with the ambiguous ending !!