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A review by moirwyn
Beasts of Abigaile, Volume 1 by Spica Aoki
5.0
This review originally appeared on my blog, Books Without Any Pictures:
http://bookswithoutanypictures.com/2018/01/28/beasts-of-abigaile-vols-1-2/
As part of my New Year’s resolution, I’m reading whatever books I want when I want to, and not paying too much attention to numbers or setting exact goals. I’m currently in the middle of The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss, and I’ve barely made a dent in it, because the book is a whopping 1100+ pages. So. In between reading my giant doorstop of a fantasy novel, I’ve been reading a bunch of light fluffy manga that I’ve been impulse-buying because I’m a book addict and I have problems.
One of those series is Beasts of Abigaile. A teenage girl named Nina has just moved to the tiny but prosperous nation of Ruberia. She’s thinking about settling in to a new school in a new country, which gives her a fresh start in life. Ruberia is beautiful, and seems like something out of a fairy tale. But Nina doesn’t quite get the same kind of fresh start that she expected. She is attacked by a werewolf, only to discover that she is now one of them. And it’s at that moment that the secret of Ruberia’s prosperity becomes apparent–the humans have enslaved the luga (werewolf) race. And even though she used to be human (and sort of still is, but now with cute ears and a tail), she’s carted off to the island prison school of Abigail, where luga children are oppressed and taught to serve the humans.
Abigaile resembles a typical Japanese high school. There’s a student council that wields power within the school, and everyone wears a uniform and goes to classes. Instead of cliques, there are packs known as “homes,” and everyone is organized into an alpha-omega wolf pack hierarchy. Nina is strong-willed and always stands up for what is right, even when she’s in an unfamiliar and terrifying environment. And in the process, she catches the eye of two handsome young werewolves. Roy is the alpha werewolf who attacked Nina in the first place, and Gilles is a member of the student council who takes Nina under his wing and tries to protect her as she eases into life at Abigaile. I’m looking forward to seeing each of them develop more and seeing which one Nina ends up with.
http://bookswithoutanypictures.com/2018/01/28/beasts-of-abigaile-vols-1-2/
As part of my New Year’s resolution, I’m reading whatever books I want when I want to, and not paying too much attention to numbers or setting exact goals. I’m currently in the middle of The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss, and I’ve barely made a dent in it, because the book is a whopping 1100+ pages. So. In between reading my giant doorstop of a fantasy novel, I’ve been reading a bunch of light fluffy manga that I’ve been impulse-buying because I’m a book addict and I have problems.
One of those series is Beasts of Abigaile. A teenage girl named Nina has just moved to the tiny but prosperous nation of Ruberia. She’s thinking about settling in to a new school in a new country, which gives her a fresh start in life. Ruberia is beautiful, and seems like something out of a fairy tale. But Nina doesn’t quite get the same kind of fresh start that she expected. She is attacked by a werewolf, only to discover that she is now one of them. And it’s at that moment that the secret of Ruberia’s prosperity becomes apparent–the humans have enslaved the luga (werewolf) race. And even though she used to be human (and sort of still is, but now with cute ears and a tail), she’s carted off to the island prison school of Abigail, where luga children are oppressed and taught to serve the humans.
Abigaile resembles a typical Japanese high school. There’s a student council that wields power within the school, and everyone wears a uniform and goes to classes. Instead of cliques, there are packs known as “homes,” and everyone is organized into an alpha-omega wolf pack hierarchy. Nina is strong-willed and always stands up for what is right, even when she’s in an unfamiliar and terrifying environment. And in the process, she catches the eye of two handsome young werewolves. Roy is the alpha werewolf who attacked Nina in the first place, and Gilles is a member of the student council who takes Nina under his wing and tries to protect her as she eases into life at Abigaile. I’m looking forward to seeing each of them develop more and seeing which one Nina ends up with.