Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen

I'm going for a 3.5 again.

As always, the art style tends to be one of the best I've ever seen - intricate, detailed and excellent color scheme. This book also had some new monsters and machines and I thought they were all illustrated beautifully.

I still won't talk much about the plot because I can only follow it barely. But everyone is preparing for war and we have new players in the field, and I think we are heading towards some explosive action sequences in the upcoming books.

Whatever I feel about this story, I know I'm gonna continue because it has brilliant art and some wonderful representation and I'm quite satisfied with that. I'm sure that fans of the series will love this book too.

PREVIOUS: [b:Monstress, Vol. 3: Haven 37491890 Monstress, Vol. 3 Haven Marjorie M. Liu https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1531356957l/37491890.SY75.jpg 59101846]STORY: The Chosen returns to the more Maika-family-backstory centric style of Volume 2, this time with the introduction of her father as the bloodlines granting her the monster within start to make more sense. His subsequent formation of the tactically superior Blood Court to challenge the Baroness's union of the Dusk/ Dawn Courts, and the Cumea witches using Ancients through mask fragments pushes the human-arcanic conflict to the brink. Kippa and nekomancer Ren have their own sub-plots, with a twisting conclusion that sets up a conflict-heavy series ending in Volumes 5 and 6.ART & WRITING: Again, the artwork in this series is amazing. The writing was much easier to understand with the main players having been established, and the groups and their relationships to each other becoming more clear. The Blood Doctor himself is a classic seemingly-benevolent villain and there is great, if cliched, dialogue between himself and Maika. NEXT: [b:Monstress, Vol. 5: Warchild 52637764 Monstress, Vol. 5 Warchild Marjorie M. Liu https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1600742631l/52637764.SY75.jpg 78402003]