Sorceline

My review copy was SO bad I had to loan it out of a library I thankfully had access to through my sister. I'll show you some pictures (which I luckily had because I sent them to a friend as I removed the arc from my Kindle). It was so bad. I would've actually preferred a pdf I had to read through ADE or something than have to go through this pain.

My name is Sorceline... is supposed to be IN THE WHITE BOX. Every single panel's dialogue all had the text underneath. Same with the other page. I tried to read it and I just couldn't do any of it.

I was so looking forward to read this and then was let down. They focused more on the plot than characters and that resulted in an imbalance that made me not interested in the characters. It also felt like there were multiple plots in this one SMALL book. It's not even 150 pages and multiple plots (subplots included of course) are not worth it. I would mix up the names with the faces and didn't care. Which should tell you a lot. There were lines that were said and then they wouldn't be followed up on even though the line... should've been followed up. The main character, Sorceline, was written out to be this super cool and important character (didn't feel like it to me) and it was hard to be interested in her (or anything, really).

It wasn't the art -the art was great and I loved all the panels. I could definitely feel the emotions on the characters faces and I could see that the illustrator enjoyed drawing it. So for that (the art) it gets 2 stars (and everything else, literally nothing lol). I loved looking at all the fantasy creatures as they were beautifully illustrated. I liked that the colours weren't bright and the graphic novel felt like a cute animated movie. I know I would've loved this graphic novel – had it just been written differently. I love the idea of a cryptozoologist and we're in the classes, learning about the creatures – that I enjoyed. Maybe even more emphasis on the classes instead of the characters.