A Spoopy Love Affair With Books

Four stars for the story/writing, two for the art, so I split the difference.

The story moves well, and the characters are, for the most part, well written (there are some out-of-character moments, but I felt that the art was to blame for a lot of that). It's moving away from any sort of fairy tale format (which isn't quite as bad as Winter was, since that was supposed to be the story of Snow White) and there was too little Wolf and Scarlet for my tastes (story of my life, but this was only volume one, and they were set up for the next one), but it was a fun read.

Now, the art. What even happened here? This is only about three steps above stick figures. The characters all look the same, with some lowkey differences (Winter's shaded darker than the other characters and that's about it. And don't get me started on the Chinese characters with simple slanty lines for eyes...) The lack of color doesn't help, but that wouldn't have been as much of an issue if anything else was working. The backgrounds are boring, plain and unimaginative for a book that partly takes place in A PALACE ON THE MOON. What a disappointment. When something like science fiction is better done in the medium that is LESS visual, you know there was a huge failing somewhere.