If an app promised to make your cravings a reality, would you use it? When Crave first launched, people started using it to shoot their shots with someone they’d never approach in person, which lead to people hooking up everywhere causing all kinds of hurt feelings. It only worsens as the app introduces a collaboration option allowing others to help satisfy another person’s craving…even if they’ve decided to walk away.

The idea of the app terrifies me because humans suck 🤣 Ok, maybe not all humans but a lot of them if we’re being honest. I could see the chaos the app caused actually happening in real life.

In one scene, a professor has on the blackboard the following debate topic: “Social media isn’t designed with your long-term happiness in mind.” And that’s really the theme of the book, in my opinion. It also made me consider not only the statement but also my feelings toward social media lately. Every good has some bad, and it’s all about balance, right?

Anyway, I loved this artwork—absolutely STUNNING! It’s what originally drew me to request an ARC copy, and I’m glad the story was equally as intriguing. Content warnings: sexual content (probably obvious by the covers and my review), suicide/self-harm, and death. StoryGraph has a more in-depth list if needed!

3.5⭐ First of all, the art in this graphic novel is incredible. I really enjoyed Maria Llovet’s illustration style. I’ve tried to highlight some of the incredible images in the comic in this review. It’s beautifully drawn.
The story itself is described as “Black Mirror meets Eyes Wide Shut”. It is in the neighborhood of modern dark academia under the influence of something like social media AI run amok. It’s erotica, it’s dystopian, and it has elements of mystery and psychological thriller to it. This one is definitely not for kids. My biggest wish is for more in terms of plot development.
Thank you to Netgalley, Image Comics, and Maria Llovet for the ARC opportunity.

This was a beautiful graphic novel about characters who try to save their schoolmates from spiraling out of control. I enjoyed the plot of the narrative and grew to like the characters, but this was written as a very classic graphic novel with short bursts of excitement and not very much time to get to know the characters or world in between.
If you were to read the volumes one at a time, with a break between each, it would be a spicy comic with just enough plot that you want to know what comes next, but reading it all at once showed the strength of the actual plot and characters, and makes you want more of it. I want more time to fully fall in love with the characters. I want to understand the motives of Charlotte and why she's so convinced David is the one for her despite them having no chemistry.
The art in this novel is absolutely gorgeous! the art style is what drew me in and I definitely don't regret it. I highly recommend this book as a fun and short read. Do check the content warnings though!

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for giving me an early arc for an honest review.

This was kind of meh for me.

I don't read many graphic novels but the premise to this sounded so interesting. I love black mirror adjacent themes so this seemed right up my alley.

This fell short for me. Was I supposed to root for David? His character development was nonexistent. I literally know nothing about him other than he has a crush on Alex, and that's it.

The premise was incredibly interesting. An app that causes chaos as it tries to dive into the human need to be validated by a phone app. I understand the conversation it was trying to spark, but that was it. I guess I wanted more dialogue and more development between the characters, but maybe that's hard to accomplish in a graphic novel? It just seemed like a horned up graphic novel that tried to have a deep conversation about the dangers of social media, but instead fell flat.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to review this comic early!

Overall, I did find this story fun and quick to read, however… I did think the story was a bit too dull at times. It read very simple despite the obvious dark undertones that it presented in the story.

I do think it’s worth a read if you enjoy erotic art, but otherwise, you would likely not enjoy it for the story alone. The art is beautiful, but I think the narrative itself could use a little bit more fleshing out.

2 stars.

This was unlike anything I've read. The format is written as a comic book, which I thought would be challenging at first but it was written so well that I really enjoyed it!

This book was definitely black mirror inspired if you’re into that vide technology fast paced erotica. With vibrant colors and illustrations. If you’re not interested in spice, I would not recommend this book because it was definitely spicy but still focused on the plot moving with the technology really fun story.
Even though the story definitely kept pulling me in. It took me a while to read this book because of the level of erotica and how young they look. It just made me feel a little weird. So I can’t give it any more than three stars. That being said the art style was so beautiful. I would give it another half star just for that.

Definitely a Black Mirror feel to this graphic novel about an app that seems to make the erotic desires of a university campus start to come true. I raced through it, but I'm not quite sure the overall story is the strongest, and whilst the artwork is fine there's quite a few illustrations (particularly towards the end) that don't feel quite the highest standard (though the style is consistent throughout and seems to fit the story).

Overall I'd put this in the category of 'Would continue to read the series, but it's not going to make my Top 10 at the end of the year'.

2.5*

I honestly really enjoyed the premise of this graphic novel. The whole idea was so entertaining to read about. The style and illustration of this graphic novel were honestly so stunning.


I feel like there wasn’t as much plot at all just lust. I would have loved to have known the characters way more. Maybe I would have liked the character a bit more if it was longer. I liked the interactions they had with each other and the dialogue was done really well.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this arc in exchange for an honest review.

This was super sexy and dark and I loved the art style. I enjoy modern technology being incorporated into thriller and horror stories.

This checked many boxes for me while reading. ✔️Erotic romance ✔️graphic novel ✔️ excellent plot. I really enjoyed it from beginning to end

First I'd like to say that I think this comic just wasn't really suited to me, and may be more preferred by others. Thank you to net galley for giving me an opportunity to read it in exchange for an honest review.

'I really wanted to love this a whole lot more, however I just felt it was lacking substantially in plot building and lack of plot is a turn off as a reader for me - whether it's a book, or a graphic novel. Going into this the story sounded really good and I did like the idea of this app being in charge and creating these scenarios and impacting how the characters behaved etc. I feel like it was a great representation for sign of the times with apps and the internet, I think from a sociology perspective it's a great experiment to examine.

That's not to say this isn't an enjoyable read, however, I get the premise that it's meant to be a raunchy graphic comic - I knew that going into the read. However, I just felt like I was digging a bit to find a plot under all these raunchy sex scenes. Now don't get me wrong, I'm a smut fan through and through - I've read a lot of it but what really makes those smutty scenes worth while IS the plot, world building and story that comes with it.
I felt that, at times, the story was neither here nor there. The characters just felt a bit too one dimensional and I found myself just checking out of reading and having to go back to read.

There's just a lack of depth and it just felt like a lust show more than anything. I didn't feel like the lusty content was actually creating a build in the story which is probably why it fell a bit flat for me.

Rating: 3.5/5

This omnibus contains Volumes 1-6 of Crave. Each volume is relatively short and reads extremely easily.

I absolutely loved the art style, it felt dark and grungy which added to the overall feeling of the story being told. I enjoyed the characters but felt like the short nature of the combined volumes didn’t give me time to really care about any of them, especially with all of the side characters. I almost wish it was twice as long to really make me believe these characters relationships but also to give them much more depth.

Despite that, it is an enjoyable read and really does give the vibes of a Black Mirror episode with many sexy undertones. If you are looking for a quick, erotic read with an app that destroys people’s love lives, definitely give it a read! I think it is a great start for this author.


Thank you NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

CRAVE is a fast paced erotic thriller that delves into the harm caused when people give into their baser impulses, by way of AI & social media. the frantic art style matched the tense premise and ultimately was what engaged me the most. at times i felt the plot was a bit disjointed, but never enough to dissuade me from wanting to continue the story.

check the content warnings on this one!

thank you to Netgalley and Image Comics for a digital advance copy — the full collection is out October 1st!

Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Suicide attempt, and Outing
Moderate: Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

This was interesting… the art was great and the story overall was very entertaining. However I just don’t think the book is for me. I didn’t enjoy it as much as I hopped I would

Thank you netgalley for thjs ARC the cover really caught my eye so im glad i got the chance to read this one and what i liked about it is that all the volumes were included into this ARC.. The concept was very good it follows an app that everyone in this school ends up getting and it asks you what you're craving or who and stuff and it had alot of erotic moments and alot of times the app caused chaos on different aspects i really enjoyed the artwork in this and i loved so many of the characters this novel had such a great group of friends and side characters as well. I loved all the outfits that people wore and the details in the artwork it had very cool images and it was definitely a page turner graphic novel it kept me intrigued and i wanted to know what happened next. This was a great graphic novel and was very steamy at times depending on who was craving who at the time you should read this one!

Thank you NetGalley and Image Comics for the ARC.

When I saw the premise for this collection (episodes 1-6) of the Crave series I was immediately into it. The only question I had was about the art style because it isn’t my usual go to look I enjoy, but I am glad I got it anyways because I ended up loving the style and it was really well done. The story was quirky and original; I can’t wait to read further episodes to see what happens next since while it wraps up the original story nicely at the end it leaves open room for it to grow into new stories.

This is an erotic aka very adult manga so if that isn’t for you be warned. However, if you are looking for that then this is a great example of a well done erotic manga.

I loved this set of comics. The story was very intriguing and the concept was so cool. I enjoyed this and recommend it to anyone looking for an interesting graphic novel or a good pellet cleanser. I want to look into their work more. also, the art was incredible!!

I'm honestly a bit surprised this isn't also labeled as horror because the way social media and data collection is going, this a real and honest terror. The art of this felt really nice and clean, but conveyed the horror and beauty of what was happening.
Over all this is just a great message that I think needs to be reiterated, especially these days.

I enjoyed the general idea of this book. The illustrations were well done and although the erotic aspect of this was overdone just a little for story, I did like the black mirror feel of everything. If Crave were a real app, this is probably exactly what would happen.