Will O' the Wisp

author: Tom Hammock

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.88

book published: 2014

rating: 4

read at: 2014/03/15

date added: 2014/03/15

shelves: graphic-novels

review:

Will O' The Wisp takes place in the southern swamps and is full of hoodoo and the creepy happenings that take place on the islands of the dead. When a young newcomer comes to the island, she has to learn to get along, and to learn to protect herself.



When Aurora Grimeon's parents die of mushroom poisoning, she is sent to live with her estranged grandfather on Ossuary Isle. He lives in a creepy old house and makes his living collecting specimens and providing anatomical skeletons that he cleans with beetles. He is a man of science living in a world of superstition. He's also got a cool pet raccoon named Missy that eventually takes to Aurora as she wanders around meeting the locals.



When the locals start showing up dead, and Aurora starts seeing blue lights in the swamps, she starts investigating. She is soon over her head and starts learning how to protect herself from local hoodoo priestess Mama Noonie. The mystery deepens and is quite creepy.



The whole thing has a great atmosphere to it. The art by Megan Hutchinson is great and the story by Tom Hammock is one of the more original ones I've run across in a graphic novel. It was a good story and I'm glad I read it.



I was given a review copy by Diamond Book Distributors and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.





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