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Mercy Thompson: Homecoming
(Graphic Novel)
Author: Patricia Briggs and various Illustrators
Series: Mercedes Thompson Graphic Novels

SUMMARY
(From Goodreads)

Mercy Thompson is a walker, a magical being with the power to transform into a coyote. She lives on the fine line dividing the everyday world from a darker dimension, observing the supernatural community while standing apart.

When Mercy travels to the Tri-Cities of Washington for a job interview, she quickly finds herself smack-dab in the middle of a gang war between rival packs of werewolves. And as if fangs and fur weren’t bad enough, Mercy must deal with the scariest creature of all: her mother, who is convinced that Mercy is making a mess of her life and determined to set her daughter on the right course.

MY THOUGHTS

Since I have not read the entire original novel series, I am going to give a review as an outsider to this series starting with a graphic novel.

Confusion.  That is the one word that sums up my experience with this graphic novel.  I truly believe that if I had read the original series first, than this graphic novel probably would have made much more sense.  Yes it is easy to follow along with, but as a new reader to this author, it did lack answers to some questions.  I still have no idea about Mercy’s life growing up and what she was doing living with Bran.  The other part that left it confusing, was the illustrations.  As other reviewers have mentioned, they are beautiful.  The downfall of them though is that they change.  Mercy will look one way and then change to a different look on the following page.  One moment she is thin and graceful, the next she is muscular and stocky.  Graphic novels are suppose to tell the story through the pictures and less text, but it makes it difficult for the reader if the looks are constantly changing.

Overall it was an okay and quick read for a Graphic Novel.  It is not one of my favorites, but it still made me want to read the original novels.

MY RATING

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Cry Wolf
Series: Alpha & Omega Graphic Novel #1
Author: Patricia Briggs
Source: Gifted
ISBN: 9780441018482

SUMMARY
(From Goodreads)

The long-awaited collection-the first four issues of the graphic novel adaptation of the #1 “New York Times” bestselling author’s novel “Cry Wolf” 

“Cry Wolf” is Patricia Briggs’ “New York Times” bestselling novel about the werewolves Charles Cornick and Anna Latham. Now, these characters come alive in full-color graphic novels. 

Anne never knew werewolves existed, until the night she survived a violent attack…and became one herself. After three years at the bottom of the pack she’s learned to keep her head down and never, ever trust dominant males. 

Then Charles Cornick-the son of the leader of the North American werewolves-came into her life. He insists that not only is Anne his mate, but she is also a rare and valued Omega wolf. And Anna may be the key to stopping a rogue werewolf that threatens the entire pack.

This is a re-issue of Ace’s compilation of the Dynamite Entertainment Cry Wolf graphic series. It contains new artwork and a never-before published version of issue #1. It is NOT identical to the Ace edition though it does have the same ISBN.

When a friend of mine sent this to me as a gift, it was originally suppose to go to my oldest daughter who is seventeen.  She loves graphic novels and manga, so I thought this might be a great little surprise for her.  When I saw the cover of this book though, I thought the artwork was amazing and decided to give it a try.

I will admit — while waiting for things to be thrown at me — that I have not read the original series that this is based on.  I am behind the times so to speak in the urban fantasy world.  I have to say that this graphic novel didn’t give me much insight into the original world.  It left me with questions that would probably be addressed in the original works of fiction.  So the story in the graphic novel wasn’t as strong as I was hoping it would be in clearing up some confusion.

Now let me talk about the artwork.  The cover is gorgeous.  I fell in love with the cover at first sight and I am still in love with it.  The artwork though on the pages — which is done by someone else — was seriously lacking in my opinion.  The art didn’t portray the emotions that I was reading about in some frames.  I also wasn’t a fan of the character renditions either.

Fans of graphic novels and author Patricia Briggs will definitely want to add it to their collections, but as for casual reading of this art, I would recommend starting with a different one.