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clairedrinkstea's Reviews (1.09k)
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Not a bad start to the Jack of Fables series.
It starts where we last saw Jack in Hollywood bring stripped of his success, riches and Nimble Studios by Fabletown.
New characters are introduced as well as the return is everyone's favourite golden haired criminally insane Fable.
I often find the Jack character a little irritating but that is also the point of Jack of Tales. He's an arrogant, self-obsessed, lying, monologue driven douche who gets into some serious schenanigans which just so happen to be entertaining stories.
Bill Willingham and Co continue to produce a great story, art and immersive world with characters where you want to read their exploits.
It may not be as good as Fables, but this is only Volume 1 and I'm more than willing to give the series a fair trial.
It starts where we last saw Jack in Hollywood bring stripped of his success, riches and Nimble Studios by Fabletown.
New characters are introduced as well as the return is everyone's favourite golden haired criminally insane Fable.
I often find the Jack character a little irritating but that is also the point of Jack of Tales. He's an arrogant, self-obsessed, lying, monologue driven douche who gets into some serious schenanigans which just so happen to be entertaining stories.
Bill Willingham and Co continue to produce a great story, art and immersive world with characters where you want to read their exploits.
It may not be as good as Fables, but this is only Volume 1 and I'm more than willing to give the series a fair trial.
Enjoyable and Jack is on better form.
Jack is hugely predictable, if it's not about himself, money, himself, getting laid or himself he isn't interested.
This volume does show much of an anti-hero he is and if any good occurs around him it is pure accident.
I very much enjoyed the randomness if the Belgians - best parts of the book. I also liked the final caption in issue 9 about his hair.
What I notice with the Jack of Fables stories is that while as a whole they are good, individual captions REALLY stand out.
Jack is hugely predictable, if it's not about himself, money, himself, getting laid or himself he isn't interested.
This volume does show much of an anti-hero he is and if any good occurs around him it is pure accident.
I very much enjoyed the randomness if the Belgians - best parts of the book. I also liked the final caption in issue 9 about his hair.
What I notice with the Jack of Fables stories is that while as a whole they are good, individual captions REALLY stand out.
I really enjoyed this volume.
It was good to finally have Flycatcher step into the limelight an what a wonderful story! This is the first volume where it a actually feels like a fairly story, helped because if the fantastical nature of his adventure/trials and it being set in the Homelands. Throughout the series so far Flycatcher has been in the background and always dependable and now given the opportunity to take his place in the worlds was nice to see.
I can't help but feel that Volume 10: The Good Prince will be the calm before the storm!
It was good to finally have Flycatcher step into the limelight an what a wonderful story! This is the first volume where it a actually feels like a fairly story, helped because if the fantastical nature of his adventure/trials and it being set in the Homelands. Throughout the series so far Flycatcher has been in the background and always dependable and now given the opportunity to take his place in the worlds was nice to see.
I can't help but feel that Volume 10: The Good Prince will be the calm before the storm!
This is a strange but intriguing book.
It's not SciFi, it's not Steampunk, superhero or urban mystery....
I couldn't put it down at first but started to struggle near the end though it in no way distracts from the fact this is a good book.
You aren't left questioning how the puzzle pieces are put together, which is refreshing given the propensity of fiction to be part of a larger series. I love how Christopher throws the strange in and makes no big deal about it while a lot of fiction feels the need to create this whole exposition around it forcing it to stand out more than it should. It's Wartime, there are such things as robots, ironclad ships, police airships and robots. Deal with it.
Clues are not so overt that you can't make an educated guess and work out the mystery an you aren't being treated like a child and spoon fed the answers. When the truth does come out, you do get the satisfaction of being able to say "Knew it! Totally worked it out ages ago!" and not feel like the author is waving a big sign with the answers written in capitals and generally speaking, if as a reader you have figured out what is going on so has the protagonists and namely Rad the private detective central to this story.
Really give this book a go, you won't be disappointed to have read it.
It's not SciFi, it's not Steampunk, superhero or urban mystery....
I couldn't put it down at first but started to struggle near the end though it in no way distracts from the fact this is a good book.
You aren't left questioning how the puzzle pieces are put together, which is refreshing given the propensity of fiction to be part of a larger series. I love how Christopher throws the strange in and makes no big deal about it while a lot of fiction feels the need to create this whole exposition around it forcing it to stand out more than it should. It's Wartime, there are such things as robots, ironclad ships, police airships and robots. Deal with it.
Clues are not so overt that you can't make an educated guess and work out the mystery an you aren't being treated like a child and spoon fed the answers. When the truth does come out, you do get the satisfaction of being able to say "Knew it! Totally worked it out ages ago!" and not feel like the author is waving a big sign with the answers written in capitals and generally speaking, if as a reader you have figured out what is going on so has the protagonists and namely Rad the private detective central to this story.
Really give this book a go, you won't be disappointed to have read it.
Stray took a bit to get in to but once the perverbial s*** hit the fan it got good!
Faythe (silly spelling) may be 23 years old but to me she was acting like a 13 year old. Her internal monologue of not being treated as an equal because she's a girl, rants over the protective nature of her pride and unreasonable/mistimed demands started to fall on deaf ears. I wanted to scream at her to grow the hell up and act her age. She may have spent five years at college but she has gained no real world experience as "Daddy" payed for everything so she felt no responsibility.
Once the bad guys came on the scene properly though it got better. Faythe started to act like the adult she is and her whining thankfully decreased dramatically. Faythe has the chance to become a strong, dynamic female lead (and Alpha) and as this is the first book in the series I will concentrate on the elements I enjoyed and hope she does some serious growing up in future installments.
I like Marc, Ethan, Owen, Parker and Jace and hope their presence remains strong. I want to see the dynamic between her parents who have great potential as secondary characters.
Overall a decent start once you get into it.
Faythe (silly spelling) may be 23 years old but to me she was acting like a 13 year old. Her internal monologue of not being treated as an equal because she's a girl, rants over the protective nature of her pride and unreasonable/mistimed demands started to fall on deaf ears. I wanted to scream at her to grow the hell up and act her age. She may have spent five years at college but she has gained no real world experience as "Daddy" payed for everything so she felt no responsibility.
Once the bad guys came on the scene properly though it got better. Faythe started to act like the adult she is and her whining thankfully decreased dramatically. Faythe has the chance to become a strong, dynamic female lead (and Alpha) and as this is the first book in the series I will concentrate on the elements I enjoyed and hope she does some serious growing up in future installments.
I like Marc, Ethan, Owen, Parker and Jace and hope their presence remains strong. I want to see the dynamic between her parents who have great potential as secondary characters.
Overall a decent start once you get into it.
