I didn’t know anything about this series but when I saw it on the shelf I got very excited. Unfortunately, the graphic novel did not live up to any of my expectations. Slapdash and far too cutesy for my liking, I was hoping for grand mythmaking on the level of Gaiman’s Sandman series but it just wasn’t up to the task. There IS a good story in here but the writers and artists just couldn’t pull it together.
Just A Simple Story about a Boy and His Friendship with His Cat
A few years ago, I wondered why I hadn’t gotten into manga the same way I had graphic novels, so I decided to give it a go. I went with Fairy Tail after binging the first few seasons of the anime already on Netflix. In retrospect I probably should have started with a series that has already ended, so I have some sort of goal line on the horizon, but, you know, hindsight and all. So I yoked myself to a current series and the burden […]
Big or small; an animal familiar is always useful in a quest
Young Rhea is the daughter of a poor family that survives by running a grain mill. Despite the family living and working in the same mill for generations, they are not the owners and are at the mercy of the aristocrats who rule the land. Therefore, the family has no choice but agree to Rhea to become engaged to be married under suspicious circumstances or face the possibility of angering the nobility and being evicted. As you can tell from the title, Rhea is not the […]
Light and dark are exactly what they seem
When Leigh Bardugo’s first novel from a new series dropped in 2015 and started getting all kinds of raves, I knew I’d have to go back post haste to the ever-growing TBR and pick up the first series, which I had been intending to read for some time. The Grisha Trilogy imagines a fantasy world based out of a Russian analog country, where those possessed of magical abilities are called the Grisha, and anyone who is not Grisha is probably either a peasant or a […]