Heartless Prince

Interesting premise. A little rushed, but I am interested in seeing where this series goes.

I really liked the art and I thought it was a good fantasy story. I think a little more time on the world-building or characterization would have gone a long way to make the magical combat less confusing, but I thought the concepts were intriguing. It ended on an unexpected cliffhanger, which kind of dampened my enjoyment at the end. If it was longer/more complete it would give me major Shadow & Bone energy. Overall, a solid pick for high fantasy GN enjoyers.

This book, like a lot of YA Fantasy graphic novels, seem to have the problem of giving too much information and not enough. We are kind of thrown into this fantasy word without much explanation of what this world is like or how it works. That is not the major problem, because as the story does on we start to figure out all of that. With this book we are basically in a world where humans and witches are fighting each other. And if a witch kills you then you basically become a zombie that they can control and use to kill other humans. Evony is this child adopted by this royal family and has been trained to fight witches along side Prince Ammon, who of course she has a crush on. Through a series of events the Princes heart gets stolen by a witch and Evony goes on a quest to return the Princes's heart. Then instead of learning more about the world Evony just comes across a witch that is willing to help her for vague reasons, so the we are just given a big info dump so the main charters and successfully and quickly complete the quest. All of this accumulates to the second problem that I have with YA Fantasy graphic novels is that they are too short. The plot are usually good, but there is not enough time to develop the characters, the world, or much else. As a result we get get a very rushed story with a hit of something more. Though that question I have is that if readers don't really care about the first part of the story, then why would readers want to pick up the next part?