The One Hundred Nights of Hero
Ratings26
Average rating4.1
This was a very interesting read that has a story within a story format. These two men make a bet that his wife, Cherry, could not be seduced within one hundred nights. He has faith that she will be perfectly faithful because she has not even been with him! That's because Cherry's lover is actually her maid Hero. They are in love and Hero decides that she will tell the guy enough stories that he will be so interested in the stories that he would not be with her. It ends up working and he is loosing track of the days. It doesn't end quite how you think but it in that one hundred nights of story telling they end up causing a revolution and the downfall of a cult meant to keep women down. [The ending got me thinking for a while. So, in this book there was an element of fantasy...and like the moon saved them both. I hate the lesbians always die at the end troupe that is out there so I'm very glad they lived in the stars...but I kinda wanted there to be a separate stories are fantasy and can empower regular people and just reality being reality. Although, it is really cool if wow! The stories are true we can now worship our actual God and the lady that took care of us and not this Birdman guy. Yet, you could also see how the lovers turned into stars because they died. They're not shown again, but can live on forever in the stars...but also their story gets told to the society of stories women and in that way their story gets told on forever and therefore they live on through the story and maybe those stars are dedicated to them because the story tellers have a charm with the stories they tell to remind them...Anyway! Pretty cool..what do you guys think? (hide spoiler)]
The stories were amazing. They were about love and sisterhood and went really well the the charming illustrations. The font how ever, even though it matched the art style at times was hard to read. ~Ashley
An amazing comic, with a beautiful art style, and writing reminiscent of an old fairytale. Had me hooked from the very beginning!
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
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.
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.
This book is a treasure. It's so effective, how the stories distract and immerse both the reader and the characters. The plot is winding and scattered but ties itself together beautifully. The artwork fits the tone. There are hilarious and absurd bits to offset the dark premise. It's a hopeful, clever, wonderful creation. I love it.
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.