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A review by jbolwerk8
Escape from Lucien by Kazu Kibuishi
3.0
There are a couple of different plotlines in this book. Navin and his friend Aly are in school, but the city of Lucien has been destroyed, and they go down to activate a communication beacon. They run across these shadow spirits and have to run from them and try to flee the city. At the same time, Max wants to break his curse and needs Emily to do it. When they try to stand up to The Voice, Max dies. Emily and her friend stonekeepers save the ship and find the people who fled the city. Book six ends with some bots setting out to Lucien because they received a signal from the beacon.
I really wish that we would have been able to read the first book of the series, because by the time we have gotten to the sixth book, there is a lot of backstory that I just don’t understand. I was able to fill some holes, but it would have been easier starting from the beginning. I did like the style and all of the colors of this novel. There were a lot of onomatopoeias and action scenes that are represented much better in a graphic novel than I think they would be in a book…and with less words! One thing that I think would have been good to have was a clearer chapter distinction. Sometimes I would turn the page and have to pause and readjust myself to the other story line.
I really wish that we would have been able to read the first book of the series, because by the time we have gotten to the sixth book, there is a lot of backstory that I just don’t understand. I was able to fill some holes, but it would have been easier starting from the beginning. I did like the style and all of the colors of this novel. There were a lot of onomatopoeias and action scenes that are represented much better in a graphic novel than I think they would be in a book…and with less words! One thing that I think would have been good to have was a clearer chapter distinction. Sometimes I would turn the page and have to pause and readjust myself to the other story line.