However, with its upbeat palette (courtesy of Pop), manga-inspired art and hip characters, this charmer is sure to please preteen girls.
Though it's a fantastic visual experience, the actual plot is thin even as Nola delves into the mystery in the subsequent volumes, the narrative never really gains any degree of complexity. Luckily for the ravenous reader, the whole trilogy releases simultaneously (#2, Ferrets and Ferreting Out, PLB: 978-0-7613-6504-4 #3, Even for a Dreamer Like Me, PLB: 978-0-7613-6505-1). This first installment propels forward with the force of a rocket-albeit a very pink, fanciful one. Nola and her friends radiate a funky fashion sense, constantly changing clothes and hairstyles it’s hard to imagine a reader who wouldn’t want to raid her closet. Nola quickly learns that there are strange forces after the siblings and is determined to get to the bottom of this mystery. Her world is cozy and ordinary until she meets the aloof and mysterious Damiano and Inés. Cotton-candy–tressed Nola spends her days dreaming in her peaceful town, Alta Donna. 8-12)īubble-gum–tinged whimsy abounds in this stylish French graphic-novel import. In the end it’s Peter’s true talents, not magic, that prove most reliable.Īuxier has a juggler’s dexterity with prose that makes this fantastical tale quicken the senses, even if it does bog down from time to time. (Fantasy. Solving the riddle and embracing his destiny are just the beginning of Peter’s problems. With one onslaught after another, the violence turns from suggested to overt, with weaponry and bloody battles.
The action never flags, even though the suspense does. The king has brainwashed all the adults and enslaved all of their children, who are controlled by a horde of bloodthirsty apes. He seeks and eventually finds a vanished kingdom, where he faces a tyrannical king. After much travail, Peter learns that the mysterious eyes are not always dependable.
Thus begins a perilous adventure wrought from a riddle found in a bottle. When Peter drops the first pair into his eye-sockets, he’s instantly swept away.
His wretched existence changes when he steals a box containing eggs that are actually three pairs of magical eyes. Blinded by ravens in infancy and made to steal for the town’s beggar-monger (think Fagin), Peter becomes an expert thief and pickpocket. What begins Dickensian turns Tolkien-esque in this quest replete with magic and mystery.
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