author: Chris Roberson
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.33
book published: 2014
rating: 2
read at: 2014/12/28
date added: 2014/12/28
shelves: graphic-novels
review:
'Sovereign Volume 1' attempts to tell an epic fantasy story with an interesting world. The problem is that some of the information you might like to have comes late in the book.
The book is comprised of shorter chapters which feature a quote by one of the characters. There are strange characters in masks. There is political intrigue. There are chapters of just exposition with no character dialogue. Strange creatures, explorers, walking dead, and lots of other interesting things going on.
The problem is that you are kind of dumped into the middle of it all and left to founder around to figure out how the world works. Since each chapter at first is another part of the story, these short fragments don't give you much to grasp onto. The book ends with some pages of text relating to the inhabitants of this world and maybe this is where someone should start, but it's dry and uninteresting, and by the time I got to these pages, I was done and ready to move on. The art at times was gorgeous and I loved it, and at other times seemed uneven and I didn't love it. I appreciate the scope of the story being told, and I might try volume 2 if I get a chance, but I wasn't as impressed as I'd hoped to be with this one.
I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Diamond Book Distributors, Image Comics and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
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