Amanda
A disgraced author hires a skeezy academic to help her reboot an obscure series of fantasy novels; the academic and his surly teenage kid get sucked into a fantasy realm while on a research trip.
Where to start? The story lacks originality; the writing is mediocre; the art, while good, seems more appropriate to a middle grade fantasy title; and the characters are so insufferable that I kept hoping monsters would eat them—slowly.
My time would have been far more pleasurably spent revisiting The Magicians.
Received via NetGalley.
A disgraced author hires a skeezy academic to help her reboot an obscure series of fantasy novels; the academic and his surly teenage kid get sucked into a fantasy realm while on a research trip.
Where to start? The story lacks originality; the writing is mediocre; the art, while good, seems more appropriate to a middle grade fantasy title; and the characters are so insufferable that I kept hoping monsters would eat them—slowly.
My time would have been far more pleasurably spent revisiting The Magicians.
Received via NetGalley.