Reviews

The Dream Thief by J.M. DeMatteis

rosenectur's review

3.0

The second book in the graphic novel series from Crossgen/Disney. Unfortunately it only brought up more questions that it answered. I esp. enjoyed the character of Wix, a talking candle. The illustration are great and very dream like which fits the story perfectly. Now if I can only get my hands on the third one.

library_brandy's review

2.0

I was so excited to find these two volumes at the used bookstore: I read the first issue of the comic when it came out, and I was intrigued. But the translation to a hybrid novel just doesn't work. As a half-prose, half-comic hybrid, we get entirely too much of Kate's voice: clear and distinct, but also bitter, angsty, and snottily disaffected. Some of the opening comics pages look familiar from the original comic, but as the book moves forward, the art becomes increasingly Disney-fied (not surprising, since Disney bought all Crossgen's properties, of which the Abadazad comic was one).

I'm not super inclined to track down book 3--for the best since it never got US release, and book 4 seems to be permanently canceled. So much for this 8-book series.

bookwormyami's review

5.0

I read this book right after I finished the first one in the series. I loved it just as much as the first one. And in this one, we get introduced to a couple of new characters. I love them all. It's definitely worth a read. Fast paced, crazy, cool characters and magical!