Language: R (106 swears, 0 “f”); Mature Content: PG; Violence: PG13
BUYING ADVISORY: HS - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
He gains consciousness alone in a place he doesn’t know without any idea of his own name. But, by instinct, he knows his outfit is strange, how to sneak around in the shadows, and that he dislikes swimming. From there, everything is guess work and trying to survive long enough to remember.
I have mixed feelings about the main character’s amnesia. On one hand, I enjoyed figuring out the world he was in with him, without any preconceived notions on the main character’s part. However, it was also easy to feel tricked because I believed what he believed, and what he believed wasn’t always the truth. That was annoying. The story was well-built, and it felt like everything was just for that one line near the end—worth it. But then the epilogue was confusing, as if I was supposed to understand what was implied without being given all the pieces. In conclusion, the book begins and ends in confusing ways, but the middle is fun.
John, Sefawynn, Ealstan, and Thokk are depicted as white in the illustrations. The majority of characters are white, though there are a couple mentions of diversity, including Yazad who looks “middle eastern” and Ryan who is Chinese. The mature content rating is for kissing and partial nudity in the cartoons in the margins that are totally not relevant to the story. The violence rating is for mentions of suicide, fantasy violence, assault, gun use, and murder.
Reviewer: Carolina Herdegen
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