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rosseroo's review
3.0
As a child, I grew up reading large format European comix such as Tintin and Asterix, so I try and pick up new European stuff in translation when I come across it. This is the first book in a French series about two boys and their misadventures with the supernatural. I couldn't quite get a fix on their ages, but they seem to be somewhere in the 11-13 year-old range, and the book is definitely pitched a little too young for my taste. Robin's father is a coroner for the local police (or something like that, not entirely how the French system works), and one night, while poking around in his home office, the boys come across a case file for a recent mysterious death. Soon enough, they are poking around the riverbank where the body was found, convinced that the death is the work of a vampire. What ensures is only mildly diverting, and the story never ends up leading anywhere that interesting. The art and coloring are solid enough, but it's not something that's going to satisfy adult readers and I'll pass on the rest of the series.
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