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Crema
Crema | Johnnie Christmas, Dante Luiz
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Esme, a barista, feels invisible, like a ghost.... Also, when Esme drinks too much coffee she actually sees ghosts.
Yara, the elegant heir to a coffee plantation, is always seen, but only has eyes for Esme.
Their world is turned upside down when the strange ghost of an old-world nobleman begs Esme to take his letter from NYC to a haunted coffee farm in Brazil, to reunite him with his lost love of a century ago. Bringing sinister tidings of unrequited love.
#1 New York Times Best-Selling cartoonist Johnnie Christmas (writer) and Prism Award Nominee Dante L. (artist) bring you a haunted tale of love, ghosts and coffee beans.
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Robotswithpersonality
Crema | Johnnie Christmas, Dante Luiz
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If the shorter analogue to a novel is a novella, could this then accurately be described as a graphic novella?
It's not necessarily a short story or a longer narrative told at a fast-forwarded pace, but it is a full story in three parts in just over 100 pages of illustrated panels. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? There's a frequent roughened line work and washed out colour palette that isn't my favourite aesthetic choice, but in many ways it matches the tone of the story.
Per the notes in the back, Dante Luiz brings a well thought put visual identity of Brazilian culture and aesthetics, while Johnnie Christmas provides a narrative featuring love stories in two time lines,
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Robotswithpersonality 3/4 one modern lesbian, interracial couple, one historical couple with possibly tragic telenovela stylings...there are also ghosts, caffeine intake concerns, a family farm/business in trouble, and easily hateable business major bro types. You don't have to like coffee to enjoy the tale. 4w
Robotswithpersonality 4/4 ⚠️Heads up for those getting 'YA' from the cover: the main protagonists are adults with jobs; there is some spooky imagery, smoking and nakedness/love scenes on page. 4w
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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
Crema | Johnnie Christmas, Dante Luiz
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A bit disjointed and underdeveloped, but a fun sapphic paranormal graphic novel nonetheless! Not my favourite style of art (the cover and inside are totally different graphics-wise). #QueerBooks

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wicdiv
Crema | Johnnie Christmas, Dante Luiz
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So basically, this is a comic about a barista who can see ghosts when she drinks a lot of coffee, the owner of the cafe/coffee bean company that she subsequently falls for, and how their love defeats an evil ghost.

What more could you possibly want from a comic?
Free to read with Kindle Unlimited / Prime.

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Crema | Johnnie Christmas, Dante Luiz
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The colouring for this comic is so strange but also really pretty.