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Doll Parts: A Lovesick Tale
240 pages, Paperback
Published July 29, 2025
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April 9, 2025
Luana really knows how to unlock the perplexities and oddities of the human psyche😭 Getting the origin story after reading Lovesick I feel actually makes it that much more tragic of a story🥲 This is not for the faint of heart and the list of trigger warnings is immense!
August 19, 2025
And the angels wouldn't help you, because they've all gone away... oh, digital-age harajuku-girlie Laura Palmer, we're really in it now.
Sure, maybe it's just because she's on my mind forever and always, but knowing what the rest of M's arc looks like, I couldn't stop picturing her as a version of Laura, one who chooses from similar impossible options but ends up on the other side of the coin. This book really adds such a powerful context to the original Lovesick run, to the point where I don't know if the two can be separated story-wise. Everything that didn't quite click for me with Lovesick was done so impeccably in this volume, and so many of M's experiences feel grounded in terrible reality without glamorizing the dark corners of the internet. This is a story about rape culture and patriarchy and the normalization of violence, and it's really hard to pull off themes like that when you're also choosing to be very graphic in your depictions of those themes, but I do think Doll Parts does a solid job making sure it's always character-focused and not gratuitous. I have more complicated thoughts about that same violence and its purpose in Lovesick, and I really can't recommend either story to anyone who doesn't have a full understanding of the content warnings (CSA, CSAM, violent intrusive thoughts and eating disorders are some major ones for Doll Parts specifically) — but Luana Vecchio is doing something really important here and it was executed with such a clear vision and understanding of the protagonist that I have to give it 5 stars.
The contrast of such gorgeous illustration + color palette with the depth and darkness of the story that's being told works really, really well, and it leaves you feeling hollowed out by how badly you want to intervene in M's life and help her - but you can't, and that's the point, no one ever helped her. Her life is one long domino effect (get it?) of horrific trauma and you the reader can't change a single thing, you can only witness it. Similar to Lynch's works, Doll Parts doesn't come to a neat conclusion for you, but here's what I got out of it: you can't prevent harm with draconian internet restrictions, or by demonizing sex, or by stripping children of their (already almost nonexistent) agency. To prevent harm, you have to upturn the system that perpetuates systemic sexual violence against girls and women, and that starts by unpacking and noticing the pervasive aspects of rape culture in your own world.
Sure, maybe it's just because she's on my mind forever and always, but knowing what the rest of M's arc looks like, I couldn't stop picturing her as a version of Laura, one who chooses from similar impossible options but ends up on the other side of the coin. This book really adds such a powerful context to the original Lovesick run, to the point where I don't know if the two can be separated story-wise. Everything that didn't quite click for me with Lovesick was done so impeccably in this volume, and so many of M's experiences feel grounded in terrible reality without glamorizing the dark corners of the internet. This is a story about rape culture and patriarchy and the normalization of violence, and it's really hard to pull off themes like that when you're also choosing to be very graphic in your depictions of those themes, but I do think Doll Parts does a solid job making sure it's always character-focused and not gratuitous. I have more complicated thoughts about that same violence and its purpose in Lovesick, and I really can't recommend either story to anyone who doesn't have a full understanding of the content warnings (CSA, CSAM, violent intrusive thoughts and eating disorders are some major ones for Doll Parts specifically) — but Luana Vecchio is doing something really important here and it was executed with such a clear vision and understanding of the protagonist that I have to give it 5 stars.
The contrast of such gorgeous illustration + color palette with the depth and darkness of the story that's being told works really, really well, and it leaves you feeling hollowed out by how badly you want to intervene in M's life and help her - but you can't, and that's the point, no one ever helped her. Her life is one long domino effect (get it?) of horrific trauma and you the reader can't change a single thing, you can only witness it. Similar to Lynch's works, Doll Parts doesn't come to a neat conclusion for you, but here's what I got out of it: you can't prevent harm with draconian internet restrictions, or by demonizing sex, or by stripping children of their (already almost nonexistent) agency. To prevent harm, you have to upturn the system that perpetuates systemic sexual violence against girls and women, and that starts by unpacking and noticing the pervasive aspects of rape culture in your own world.
August 3, 2025
This is probably the most depraved thing I have ever read. There are no trigger warnings, it just says it’s a coming of age story about a 12 year old girl. Oh boy. It’s actually like the worst episode of criminal minds you’ve ever seen except from the POV of victim and somehow 10x worse.
However this book gripped me at every page. The characters were so viscerally real and the art was stunning. This book explores hyper sexualisation of young girls and the extremes it can lead to. It is an uncomfortable but relatable read.
Obsessed with every page.
However this book gripped me at every page. The characters were so viscerally real and the art was stunning. This book explores hyper sexualisation of young girls and the extremes it can lead to. It is an uncomfortable but relatable read.
Obsessed with every page.
December 17, 2025
This book is extremely, unapologetically messed up and I don’t mean that lightly. Doll Parts is about a young girl who is traumatized by witnessing the brutalized body of another girl, and about how that trauma, combined with constant neglect and predation, warps her relationship to violence and sex in devastating ways. It’s not an easy read. I finished it feeling sick to my stomach tbh.
The story absolutely engages with fetishistic imagery, it kind of has to, because Madeleine herself becomes drawn to sexual violence after being exposed to it so young. We see what she searches for online, the forums she ends up in, and the horrific things men say to her and about her. It’s disturbing precisely because it feels so real. This isn’t shock for shock’s sake; it’s an honest depiction of how hypersexualization and predation shape a child’s inner world. What’s remarkable is that by the end, you may not approve of what Madeleine becomes but you understand it.
Her logic is twisted, but painfully human: if she chooses the danger, if she makes it happen on her own terms, then she doesn’t have to live in constant fear of when it’s going to happen. It’s a warped attempt at control in a world where she has none. She’s tightly controlled by parents who don’t love her in any meaningful way, isolated from peers, preyed on by adults, and surrounded by constant reminders that there are people who want to hurt girls like her. The message she absorbs, over and over, is that nowhere is safe so she decides to make herself unsafe on purpose. It’s horrifying, but it makes a terrible kind of sense.
The art plays a huge role in all of this. It’s beautiful, detailed, and often soft or even candy-colored, which creates an unsettling contrast with the brutality of the subject matter. That visual dissonance makes the story hit even harder. The pacing is steady and intentional, giving each stage of Madeleine’s life space to show how one experience leads into the next. As an origin story, it’s frighteningly coherent, every dot connects.
What affected me most wasn’t just the explicit violence, but the everyday cruelty: the casual misogyny, the objectification, the microaggressions, the way people talk about girls’ bodies as if they’re disposable. That background noise of hatred is constant, and it’s suffocating. By the end, I didn’t just feel disturbed, I felt deeply sad for Madeleine. I wanted someone to step in and save her, and no one ever does.
I didn’t know going in that this was a prequel to Lovesick, but Doll Parts works completely on its own. It’s a brutal, deeply uncomfortable story that asks you to sit with the ugliest parts of our culture and look at what they do to a child over time.
I’d only recommend this to readers with very strong stomachs and a willingness to engage with material that is confronting and upsetting. But for me, despite (or maybe because of) how difficult it is, this was a powerful, beautifully constructed, five-star read.
Haunting, brutal, suffocating and devastatingly human.
The story absolutely engages with fetishistic imagery, it kind of has to, because Madeleine herself becomes drawn to sexual violence after being exposed to it so young. We see what she searches for online, the forums she ends up in, and the horrific things men say to her and about her. It’s disturbing precisely because it feels so real. This isn’t shock for shock’s sake; it’s an honest depiction of how hypersexualization and predation shape a child’s inner world. What’s remarkable is that by the end, you may not approve of what Madeleine becomes but you understand it.
Her logic is twisted, but painfully human: if she chooses the danger, if she makes it happen on her own terms, then she doesn’t have to live in constant fear of when it’s going to happen. It’s a warped attempt at control in a world where she has none. She’s tightly controlled by parents who don’t love her in any meaningful way, isolated from peers, preyed on by adults, and surrounded by constant reminders that there are people who want to hurt girls like her. The message she absorbs, over and over, is that nowhere is safe so she decides to make herself unsafe on purpose. It’s horrifying, but it makes a terrible kind of sense.
The art plays a huge role in all of this. It’s beautiful, detailed, and often soft or even candy-colored, which creates an unsettling contrast with the brutality of the subject matter. That visual dissonance makes the story hit even harder. The pacing is steady and intentional, giving each stage of Madeleine’s life space to show how one experience leads into the next. As an origin story, it’s frighteningly coherent, every dot connects.
What affected me most wasn’t just the explicit violence, but the everyday cruelty: the casual misogyny, the objectification, the microaggressions, the way people talk about girls’ bodies as if they’re disposable. That background noise of hatred is constant, and it’s suffocating. By the end, I didn’t just feel disturbed, I felt deeply sad for Madeleine. I wanted someone to step in and save her, and no one ever does.
I didn’t know going in that this was a prequel to Lovesick, but Doll Parts works completely on its own. It’s a brutal, deeply uncomfortable story that asks you to sit with the ugliest parts of our culture and look at what they do to a child over time.
I’d only recommend this to readers with very strong stomachs and a willingness to engage with material that is confronting and upsetting. But for me, despite (or maybe because of) how difficult it is, this was a powerful, beautifully constructed, five-star read.
Haunting, brutal, suffocating and devastatingly human.
May 17, 2025
8/10
Wow. Completely insane. Luana Vecchio has an incredibly fucked up mind and I love it. She created one of the most disturbing comic books ever made and covered it in bubblegum colors to make a really cool dichotomy. This miniseries goes places and essentially feels like it ends in issue 3 so then what's left? Well, life goes on and we see the damage that's been done after the first 3 issues. This series is surprisingly deep as well. It's a story of troubled childhood with uncaring parents and the lengths a child will go to to find someone who, at least in their mind, cares about them. This was a wild book with beautiful art, great color choices, and a deeply dark story that will stick with me for a long time.
Wow. Completely insane. Luana Vecchio has an incredibly fucked up mind and I love it. She created one of the most disturbing comic books ever made and covered it in bubblegum colors to make a really cool dichotomy. This miniseries goes places and essentially feels like it ends in issue 3 so then what's left? Well, life goes on and we see the damage that's been done after the first 3 issues. This series is surprisingly deep as well. It's a story of troubled childhood with uncaring parents and the lengths a child will go to to find someone who, at least in their mind, cares about them. This was a wild book with beautiful art, great color choices, and a deeply dark story that will stick with me for a long time.
December 25, 2025
A very thorough character study on Domino A.K.A Mad (once upon a time). This is a very triggering read if I say so myself even though a little bit tamer compare to Lovesick (from the same author).
We really get to see how Mad became Domino and it's a really sad life story for a growing teenage girl who's still at the stage of discovering oneself and be born from a shitty household and people who only cares for themselves.
If this is on your tbr, kindly heed the trigger warnings.
T.W.: Shitty Parents, Blood, Autassassinophilia, Pedophilia, Underage Sex, Sexual Harassment
We really get to see how Mad became Domino and it's a really sad life story for a growing teenage girl who's still at the stage of discovering oneself and be born from a shitty household and people who only cares for themselves.
If this is on your tbr, kindly heed the trigger warnings.
T.W.: Shitty Parents, Blood, Autassassinophilia, Pedophilia, Underage Sex, Sexual Harassment
October 17, 2025
advertised as erotica when it’s SOLEY about really awful traumatic experiences. i absolutely think writing about these experiences is important and worthwhile but this is a fetishization of trauma. it’s not exploring trauma it’s trauma as erotic. the writer talks about it as very sexy and lighthearted meanwhile the mc is 12-16 in this book and all the sex scenes r literally only SA.
April 3, 2025
I think it will take me far longer to unpack Doll Parts compared to Lovesick, hits so hard especially also growing up in that mid 2000s/early 2010s era.
'because in the end, only bad girls are loved in comics'
(read as single issues)
'because in the end, only bad girls are loved in comics'
(read as single issues)
August 6, 2025
read it all in one sitting without stopping because it’s just so good… i love luana vecchio and her artwork . unfortunately relatable to some extent as was lovesick initially. really excited to read lovesick another time or two given this backstory … 💔
April 9, 2025
Read as single issues.
September 21, 2025
A prequel to Lovesick that shows how daring, controversial and good of a storyteller Luana Vecchio is.
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