The first book of the much celebrated series is a humdinger. If I had the other 9 books in the series, I would have kept reading until I dropped. Vividly illustrated, marvelously imagined story of forbidden love at once on the run from galactic armies fantastic and nuts and bolts relationship real. The real and fantastic blend perfectly heightening the beauty of both. In my memory it plays more like a movie than having read a graphic novel. The phrasing of the images reads as cinematic, the characters so beautifully rendered as if actors had slipped into the ink. Guess I thought this was pretty good.