A review by fantasy_with_me
House of Night: Legacy by Jonathan Case, Karl Kerschl, Jenny Frison, P.C. Cast, Joshua Covey, Steve Morris, Joëlle Jones, Eric Canete, Kristin Cast, Daniel Krall, Kent Dalian
1.0
There was one good thing about this book. And that was the cover.
Not that I expected much from a comic version of a book, but... This was hardly recognizable. It's just 5 chapters, each chapter is Zoey learning a lesson from a story Damien reads from the Handbook. An occasional short flashback to explain something that happened because they started with book 2 and suddenly realized Oh, stuff happened in book 1, let's flashback.
The focus is obviously on these stories and everything else is pushed to the side. I didn't get this book to read about Cleopatra, or Circe. Silly me wanting to see how Zoey and co actually looked and interacted and got all their drama together. Well, it was not to be. All she did was talk to Aphrodite and kill a snake.
Oh, and she has a brother now?? Since WHEN?
And I like how the author made it sound like Nyx was plump in the book series (or at least had Zoey talk like Nyx was fat) and now she's a toothpick. So much for good roll models.
They keep talking about Erik like he's a part of Zoey's life, and he's in maybe one or two panels. And even then he looks like a copy of Damien.
In short, this comic reminded me of why I hate the series with such burning passion.
Not that I expected much from a comic version of a book, but... This was hardly recognizable. It's just 5 chapters, each chapter is Zoey learning a lesson from a story Damien reads from the Handbook. An occasional short flashback to explain something that happened because they started with book 2 and suddenly realized Oh, stuff happened in book 1, let's flashback.
The focus is obviously on these stories and everything else is pushed to the side. I didn't get this book to read about Cleopatra, or Circe. Silly me wanting to see how Zoey and co actually looked and interacted and got all their drama together. Well, it was not to be. All she did was talk to Aphrodite and kill a snake.
Oh, and she has a brother now?? Since WHEN?
And I like how the author made it sound like Nyx was plump in the book series (or at least had Zoey talk like Nyx was fat) and now she's a toothpick. So much for good roll models.
They keep talking about Erik like he's a part of Zoey's life, and he's in maybe one or two panels. And even then he looks like a copy of Damien.
In short, this comic reminded me of why I hate the series with such burning passion.