Ever since I read the Lunar Chronicles, I've wanted a story revolving around Iko. Her character in the original series was one of my favorites (aside from Thorne) and when I found out they were doing a graphic novel from her perspective, I was so excited. Unfortunately, I didn't end up enjoying this as much as I wanted to. It was good, not great.

Iko just didn't feel like the same character to me. There were still moments with her humor and personality, but she just felt different to me. I didn't like the scenes between her and Kinney, and if he is going to make him a romantic interest, Meyer definitely has them on a super slow burn...

There wasn't enough of Scarlet and Wolf to really form an opinion, but from what I saw their relationship seemed very sweet. It definitely reminded me of them in the books.

Jacin and Winter had almost no arc. The only conversations they have involve several other people.

Kai and Cinder have literally no contact with each other throughout the entire book. We see Kai for approximately 5 pages...

The only interactions I really liked involved Thorne. He is my favorite character from the series, and he is still my favorite. I really like his relationship with Cress. Actually, he has amazing chemistry with every other character he comes into contact with. The scene where he, Cress, and Iko are in the android shop was probably my favorite in the entire book. It was just so cute and funny.

I do like the discussion about AI and what constitutes life and emotion. I wish they were focusing a little more on that and less on the hunting of the wolves.

I didn't understand why the alpha wolf thought that Cinder had a way to bring them back to their previous selves. If she did have a way to restore them, wouldn't she have given that to her friend Wolf first?

Another thing that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me was the plot point that Cress gets sick everywhere they go and that her immune system isn't very good. The reason it didn't really track for me was that Winter has lived her entire life on Luna and yet she doesn't seem to have a problem with her immune system as an ambassador who travels around all around Earth. It felt like a plot contrivance to get Iko to the party and have Cress stay behind.

My biggest complaint about this graphic novel was the art work. I did not like the aesthetic. I didn't think that any of the characters were distinctive. They all had very similar features and face shapes. This series always seem to be so colorful to me and I didn't like how everything was and just tones of blue. It just didn't really work for me. And maybe that's just my inexperience reading graphic novels. I want to read more this year, so perhaps in time I will come to enjoy this style a bit more.

I didn't realize this was the first volume in what looks like it's going to be a series of graphic novels. I think I will continue with the series because it actually was an incredibly quick read but I am not as excited about the next volume as I was about this volume.