Édouard Cour

I think this volume would be easier to get through if it was read back to back with volume one. Herakles is still working on his impossible tasks to be made a god, but he is still under others control. Including Hera. I didn’t like volume 2 as well as I did one. The story skips around a lot and many of the illustrations are so dark they just look like black blobs. This could possibly be unfinished artwork since the copy I am reading is a galley, but it does not feel that way. To me the story was too choppy and unfinished to really like the book. But I enjoy the sass of Herakles, and the illustrations so I imagine I will be sticking around for book 3.
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This book grew on me. At first I didn’t care for it, but by the end I was entertained and interested to see who the story plays out. Herakles, is the Greek equivalent of Hercules so the story is very familiar. He is sent on his trials and tasked to impossible quests. This Herakles is more a Game of Thrones type character than a Disney character. He is brash, gruff, and very rough. We travel with him to complete four or five labors, and they are not pretty. They are violent, but not bloody as drawn in this book. I now want to see how this author/artist bring this story to completion. But at the same time, I don’t find it so unique and great that I would buy it for my library.… (más)