While Tithe by Holly Black wasn’t my favorite book, I decided to give her another chance with this graphic novel. I had about an hour of downtime at ALA while waiting for my friend Debye, plus my feet were killing me, so I opened up this book. It’s about a girl whose mother has disappeared and whose father is very depressed, and who begins to see fairies, though she doesn’t realize it at first. First she just thinks she’s having hallucinations. Over time, she discovers secrets about her parents and several other characters, and sets on a journey to learn about herself. This is the first book in a trilogy, I believe.

This was pretty good. I enjoyed it far more than Tithe. The artwork was nice, the plot was fairly straightforward, though there were some confusing parts. It’s likely those confusing parts were because I was reading it through quickly while a million people talked around me. It’s a book I’ll want to read a second time, more slowly, to soak in all the details of plot and picture. There was also a lot of fairy folklore in here and from what I know, it seemed pretty in line with traditional mythology, so it felt well-researched. It read almost like a fairy-fable, like the swan wife tale. That sort of thing.