Ships from: Staten Island, NY
Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Ships from: Chicago, IL
Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Ships from: Springfield, VA
Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Ships from: Springfield, VA
Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Ships from: Fairford, United Kingdom
Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Ships from: ACWORTH, GA
Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Ships from: Warr Acres, OK
Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Ships from: Westminster, MD
Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Want a NOOK? Explore Now
When an enormous scandal reveals that Tom might really be a boy-wizard made flesh, Tom comes into contact with a very mysterious, very deadly group that's secretly kept tabs on him all his life. Now, to protect his own life and discover the truth behind his origins, Tom will travel the world, eventually finding himself at locations all featured on a very special map -- one kept by the deadly group that charts places throughout world history where fictions have impacted and tangibly shaped reality, those stories ranging from famous literary works to folktales to pop culture. And in the process of figuring out what it all means, Tom will find himself having to figure out a huge conspiracy mystery that spans the entirety of the history of fiction.
The premise of this graphic novel is pretty interesting. However the interest ends there and just turns to confusing. We don’t really get any type of character development. The characters are just there to push the story along. For the first volume I didn’t feel like there was strong enough of a conclusion or cliffhanger.
The art wasn’t amazing, but it got the job done.
For a really great myth comes alive story check out the Fables books.
Reviewed by Chris for Book Sake.
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.TastyCannibal
Posted April 25, 2012
I loved the concept for this book, and it was executed very well. The art is classic to comic book style, with some new touches similar to the walking dead. The entire book is in color, and with very good color concept.
A little short, but it makes you want the next volume right away. Barnes & Noble delivers once more.
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.Anonymous
Posted June 27, 2012
Great graphic novel love the premise
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.Anonymous
Posted January 23, 2011
I love this series in spite of a few moments that I found a bit too gruesome and horrifying. It's worth getting through those for the literary allusions and insights that make my synapses sing.
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.Mike Carey delves into a literary hodge podge of the past and combines it with a Harry Potter-esque hype to create an incredible mystery that seems to have more layers than even the readers know. The art is very simple but that's not a bad thing. Peter Gross makes all the normal human characters identifiable and that's not always easy. I can't wait to see what happens next to Tommy Taylor, er I mean Tom Taylor.
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.Icaruslanding
Posted May 6, 2010
Although I absolutely loved the mythology and storyline of Lucifer, I have yet to be wowed by unwritten. The Harry Potter catch is pretty weak. He could have given similar impulse to his story line without ripping off a pretty un-original background for it's first breath of life. The mood and setting are good otherwise though, so I guess we'll just have to see. Because I've loved Carey's other works, I hold hope....and hope that Harry Potter will not be all he has to offer over the life of this yarn.
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.Imagine that you are Harry Potter. Not the character in the wildly popular book series, but actually a young man named Harry Potter who is the basis for the wildly popular, thirteen book series that your father wrote with the main character based on you. What do you think your life would be like?
That's basically how The Unwritten opens. Tom Taylor's dad has written an enormously popular series of books, very similar to the Harry Potter books, and based the main character of the series on his son, even naming the series of the books after his son. Tom Taylor has grown up being "Tommy Taylor," the hero of his father's book series, and is becoming quite tired of that persona. He's tried several times to break out on his own, but nothing can change the public's perception that he is Tommy Taylor, boy wizard.
Eventually, it comes to light that possibly Tom Taylor may not be the person that even he thinks he is, and he goes on his own quest to discover his past and who he really is, only to discover there are secrets about his life that may or may not parallel the events of the books that his father wrote and that there is a group that seems to be bent of destroying him and who also seem to have been involved with other authors over the years, influencing their work to their own, mysterious ends.
Frankly, I had a hard time finishing this story. It was read for a graphic novel discussion group that I belong to, and found that I had lost interest about halfway through. I think the author is trying to drop too many mysteries all at one time into the story to make it intriguing, but I found it just made too many story threads to try to keep track of. One thing that I found particularly distracting was the final chapter of this collected edition, which tells who this mysterious group has been influencing authors for years. When I got to the last panel of the main story, and turned the page and discovered what seemed like an entirely disparate story going on, I actually thought there had been a mistake at the printer and that another entirely different graphic novel had been bound into the volume that I was reading. Once I figured out that this was telling a little back story, it made it a little more clear, but to finish out the novel in such a drastically different way really pulled me entirely out of a story that was already just barely keeping my interest. However, on the flip side of that, I'm interested to see how the map that is discovered that seems to link Tom Taylor to numerous physical landmarks that have some sort of tie to literary events (such as the house that all the main characters end up at the end of the book is the same house where Milton wrote Paradise Lost, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein and finally, supposedly Tom Taylor's father wrote the Tommy Taylor books here, too). This is the one aspect of the story that will bring me to getting the second volume, because I'd like to see how Carey works in other literary works into this story and how they will help Tom Taylor get out of his predicament.
Anonymous
Posted March 22, 2010
No text was provided for this review.
Overview