Isola

Gorgeous art and interesting world building, leaves me wanting to learn more!!

As others have said, beautiful art, but the choice to start comic seemingly mid-way through the story was bad. It literally feels like u were late to the theater and came in 45 minutes into the movie. I had to check 3 times to make sure I'm reading the first volume because it felt like I was missing some prior information.

There is so much of this story that grabbed me as soon as that solider called a tiger “Your Majesty” I wanted to know what this beautifully illustrated story was about. There are some great things put in here, some magical place, some magical animals that may or may not be people, some kinda spirit guide/yoda character, kingdoms, marriage to unite kingdoms, and a relationship between a solider and a queen. It has so many interesting things going for it and yet none of it is set up to be interesting. The story of this book isn't very smooth and the flow just isn't there. There isn't any character development or relationships SHOWN, just told, so it's hard to connect and care.

!!BUT!!! I felt reading this book and it's amazing illustrations was 100% worth it. It really got my imagination going and I hope to continue reading this story! ~Ashley