A review by electricbloom
Muirwood: The Lost Abbey: The Graphic Novel by Lizzy John, Jeff Wheeler, Dave Justus, Lilah Sturges, Alex Sheikman
1.0
I got this as an Ebook ARC from Edelweiss.
WHAT A SNORE-FEST.
A young princess that was banished from the castle by her father...is called upon by her father to go search for an abbey. Banished...then needed.
This was just the first part of this series and it was a total snore. Yeah, you have to build the story up a bit, but within those pages nothing really happened. It was very boring. Just lots of internal monologue by the main character, Maia. I found the the writing was just very boring and it didn't keep my attention- good thing it was only a few pages long (on my kindle).
It's the same old song and dance with Maia: girl is unneeded, she is common, after a a while someone needs her and what do you know! she's got some type of special power, because of her power she's the only one who can save the day. Her story is like so many fantasy type heroines. It's been done again & again...and again.
The artwork on the cover was amazing - that is what made me want to request this book. When I got to the first page of the story I was so sad to see that the illustrations were not good at all. Everything seemed blurry and out of focus. The colors were drab and the style itself just wasn't good. I barely even paid attention to the illustration after the first few frames because the artwork was nothing to write home about.
Overall, very disappointed. I wouldn't recommend it at this point. Yes, it's only part one, but part one did nothing for me. I will not being continuing with this series.
WHAT A SNORE-FEST.
A young princess that was banished from the castle by her father...is called upon by her father to go search for an abbey. Banished...then needed.
This was just the first part of this series and it was a total snore. Yeah, you have to build the story up a bit, but within those pages nothing really happened. It was very boring. Just lots of internal monologue by the main character, Maia. I found the the writing was just very boring and it didn't keep my attention- good thing it was only a few pages long (on my kindle).
It's the same old song and dance with Maia: girl is unneeded, she is common, after a a while someone needs her and what do you know! she's got some type of special power, because of her power she's the only one who can save the day. Her story is like so many fantasy type heroines. It's been done again & again...and again.
The artwork on the cover was amazing - that is what made me want to request this book. When I got to the first page of the story I was so sad to see that the illustrations were not good at all. Everything seemed blurry and out of focus. The colors were drab and the style itself just wasn't good. I barely even paid attention to the illustration after the first few frames because the artwork was nothing to write home about.
Overall, very disappointed. I wouldn't recommend it at this point. Yes, it's only part one, but part one did nothing for me. I will not being continuing with this series.