A review by raeraethelibrarian
Chiaroscuro: The Private Lives of Leonardo da Vinci by David Rawson, Chas Truog, Rafael Kayanan, Pat McGreal

3.0

I don't think I care for graphic novels very much, and so that's hardly this book's fault. I really liked From Hell, and so I've been picking up graphic novels that sound interesting every now and then from the public library. This one, like From Hell, is historical fiction, and that appealed to me, and it's queer, so that appealed to me, too. But the central conflict between di Vinci and his protege Salai was a bit too understated for me and I think the connections between the plot and known history are a bit of a stretch.