4.5 stars

This was a really fun graphic novel I picked up in the library without knowing anything about it (which is odd for me as I normally only read graphic novels that are quite popular or from publishers that I’ve requested as I’m not a huge GN reader).

This is about a Captain called Captain Twain who sails on a boat on the Hudson River in the 1800s. There’s a mystery about the disappearance of the original owner of the boar, and his brother is now running it but seems more interested in bedding women. Than Twain comes across an injured mermaid, whom he helps but ends up becoming obsessed with.

The drawings in this were beautiful. I particularly liked many of the drawings of the different women as they were just stunning. I really liked the story around the mystery of the mermaid and how she captured people’s souls with her song. I was a bit confused around the ending of the story and wasn’t 100% sure what actually happened, or what was the end result so I left off a .5 star.

I would really recommend this graphic novel though for an evening’s entertainment.