The Roots of Chaos, Volume 1: Lux

author: Felipe Hernández Cava
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2011
rating: 3
read at: 2018/08/25
date added: 2018/08/25
shelves: graphic-novels
review:
'The Roots of Chaos, Volume 1: Lux' by Felipe Hernández Cava with art by Bartolomé Seguí tells a story about how we sometimes don't know those who seem to be the closest to us.

In March of 1953, Marshal Tito is visiting London. A man named Alexander walks the streets with a bomb that is intended for Tito.

From here we flash back to Alexander, a scientist working for Scotland Yard with an ailing mother. When his mother is found dead miles from the home she is in, Alexander is drawn in to a shadowy world filled with thugs, secret agents, and a handful of blank postcards. It seems his mother may have been in possession of a bomb of her own at the time of her death, and that her death may not have been the accident that it first appeared to be.

The story took a while to engage me, and the art was just ok. The people had a harsh and hollow look to them. Just as the story was moving along, it ends. Perhaps the story improves in the next volume.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Europe Comics and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.


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