Honestly how does one review a graphic novel? You can exclaim over the story, character development but really isn't it all about the pictures, right??! I have read graphic novels over the years and have my favorite illustrators and storyboarders, but this one was recommended by a comic strip! Unshelved does a very cool installment on Fridays where they do a large panel illustration of a book and talk it up. Great for Readers' Advisory. I was intrigued and lo! the District owned the volume.
We meet Wren who lives with her grandfather. She is given his journal and a key and told she must leave to save herself and their world. Wren is told the ice is encroaching and slowly killing her universe and she must somehow restart the sun. She leaves on her quest somehow knowing she will never see her grandfather again. We follow her on a wonderful and quixotic journey through the clockwork solar system. Do you remember the brass model of a solar system with all the planets connected by long thin arms? That is the world Wren has been brought up in. The arms are traveling tubes to each of the distant worlds. What a cool concept right??!!
This is the first volume in the series and you want to read it quickly. Don't do that. Read it slowly and savor the adventure as it will come to an end all too soon. I thoroughly enjoyed this and recommend it to anyone who likes steampunk, adventure/quest stories, or strong heroine characters. You will be rewarded.
Six Degrees of Reading: Through the Woods by Emily Carroll, Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by I.N.J. Culbard.
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