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cetian's review
5.0
This is a surprising book, that challenges genres. It is a novella with illustrations, with a BD feel to it. It's fiction that very artfully uses the visual language. It's a BD book with long, long narrative passages. This is, probably what a graphic novel really is, when the expression is not just not another way of saying "comic book". It is a short novel (call it a novella, a short story or just a narrative) that makes full use of graphic languages. It is #5 in The Obscure Cities by Schuiten, and it has the same elegant architectural drawing and that incredible atmosphere that the series produces, with a style of its own. This is not steam-punk, this is not alternate history, this is not exactly an alternate reality. The Obscure Cities created their own universe, narrative-wise and visually. This is a masterpiece. Like every single book in the series.
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