A review by octavia_cade
Locke & Key: ...In Pale Battalions Go… #1 by Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodríguez

adventurous dark fast-paced

3.0

Here's the thing: I think, when reading this, that I am intended by the creators to feel sorry for John and the problem is that I don't. Not one bit. I do have some sympathy that, being too young to take part in WW1, he feels as if he's not doing his part and wants to lie about his age to join up. I suspect that happened more than I would like to think that it did, but he goes about it in such a stupid and selfish way! Again, I could pass that off as him being a dumb kid, but in the story previous to this one his young brother died, and this kid doesn't give even the tiniest thought to the fact that he's risking his parents burying yet another son. That's pretty damn heartless if you ask me.

Comeuppance is clearly coming for him, but it can't come fast enough.