The One Hundred Nights of Hero
Ratings19
Average rating4
Well this was alright. I really expected more of it from all the buzz around it but ultimately it was pretty generic and didn't do anything new. I'm pretty open minded about art but this is one of the cases where I found it actively distracting.
Wow! A fantastic graphic novel even better than Greenberg's first outing “The Encyclopedia of Early Earth.” A simple “framing” story surrounds multiple tales all celebrating the beauty and intertwined power of love and story-telling. Cherry, an unhappy young adult bride, falls in love with her maid - Hero. To resist the advances of a lecherous older man, who has bet he can seduce Cherry within 100 nights, Hero tells fantastical, multi-layered tales to the man and Cherry which distract him from his lustful intentions. Simple, yet beautiful art, and often humorous text, weaves these creative, woman-empowering tales into memorable and inspiring stories. Worthy of reading again and again.
Excellent Graphic Novel
100 Nights of Hero is a beautiful, whimsical, fantastical, and relevant tale about the power of stories, love, and sass! With echos of Scheherazade and other classic fairytales and myths, Isabel Greenberg has crafted a graphic novel of modern myth combining beautiful art with excellence in storytelling. These stories have everything! Sapphic love, dancing, the moon, a BirdMan, and more! Wonderfully paced, throughly engrossing, and stylistically similar to familiar fairytales and myths (combining the fantastic with the darker aspects of life). This book is sure to delight readers of many ages.
I saw this as a pick on Literati and I'm trying to read a little more outside my normal so I decided to snag this one. I haven't read many graphic novels so was interested to see where this went for me. Plus with the synopsis, that I actually did read beforehand THIS time
An amazing comic, with a beautiful art style, and writing reminiscent of an old fairytale. Had me hooked from the very beginning!