Clean Room: Waiting For the Stars to Fall
by Gail Simone, Walter Giovani, Sanya Anwar, Quinton Winter
Genres: Graphic Novels, Horror, Science FictionPages: 144
Series: Clean Room #3
Rating:
Synopsis:In this new installment of Gail Simone's Clean Room, go back to the beginning to learn how Astrid was first affected after her hospitalization...through the eyes of one who cannot see what she sees: her would-be assassin and brother, Peter Mueller.
Then, a young woman devastated by the violent loss of her husband finds comfort in Astrid Mueller's teachings, only to face the woman herself in the most nightmarish reaches of the Clean Room!
The third volume of Gail Simone’s Clean Room cleans everything up — more or less, though one shouldn’t get too strict about the definition of “clean up” here. The world’s definitely a mess at the end, and the book doesn’t chart the recovery, or even really the recovery of the main characters, just the very beginnings of it. Assuming that Chloe ever does recover.
There’s plenty of gore and creepiness, as you’d expect from this series, now including a creepy, creepy baby.
I would say that I didn’t quite understand Astrid’s behaviour throughout the book; part of it seemed inconsistent and left me with definite questions about what was going through her mind, which weren’t really answered. And it felt like things were resolved very quickly, as if the story had to be jammed into this final volume — it made Astrid’s solution feel a little too easy.
Still, a fun series, especially if you’re more into horror than I am!
Rating: 3/5
