Fever Moon

"My first and only dive into graphic novels. Not really my still. "

"I don’t regret buying this book! It was a little expensive but since this is such an old series you don’t get to see many fan arts around. This was like getting a ton of fan art all at once and I’m here for it! It was incredible! After finishing the first five books getting to see a fan art of Dani, Barrons and Mac and specially to see what the monsters looked like was a real treat. I love animations and graphic novels and this artist did such a great job. It looks so classic. I loved it!!<br/>The story is very short but amusing if you have read the whole series and if you already know everything behind it (there are tons of spoilers so don’t pick this up before you finish the first five books) It is like a very cool Easter egg that was published for the hard core fever fans. I would love to get my hands on a physical copy even though they are a little rare to find!<br/>Also getting to read Karen’s insights on how she came up with the whole series and her own thoughts about her characters made this Graphic Novel even more special (there is a little interview with her at the end). I am excited I basically got to see all of this fan art of the world I spent so much time loving and imagining it and living in."

"Which would you like first, the good news or the bad news? I like to end on a positive note, so let's start with the bad news.<br/><br/><u><b>Boo:</b></u><br/><br/>The artwork is awful. I feel like a jerk saying this, because I read about the absolute love and admiration KMM has for the late Al Rio, but … no. It's not just that the illustration doesn't match what I imagined, it's that it blatantly doesn't match what has been described to us by KMM throughout the series.<br/><br/>Over the years, we've gotten to know these characters. This va-va-voom character who's almost as tall as Barrons is not Mac. This va-va-voom character with the body of an adult woman is not the 13yo Dani. This bloated toad of a woman is not Rowena. These fae with demonic fingers and toes are not the Seelie described to us over and over again as physical specimens for whom even the adjective "perfect" falls short.<br/><br/>In KMM's introduction to the book, she talks about how this is really Rio's vision. If that's the case, it makes me sad; I can only hope that her own was different and more true, and wish that she had stuck to it. If I wanted this type of adolescent fantasy, Boris Vallejo does it better.<br/><br/>Some of the interactions are also quite strange. Barrons has been toned down and prettied up for an audience unfamiliar with the rest of the series. It takes time to get to know Barrons, so I can understand this choice, but it leaves the rest of us with a diluted facsimile who responds and speaks as we know Barrons never would. Blech.<br/><br/><u><b>Yay:</b></u><br/><br/>The story of the Fear Dorcha is a very cool one and, despite my aversion to how most of the characters have been realised, I'm glad I read it. The character himself is one of the ones depicted best—creepy and mysterious in all the right ways. He's not alone: the shades are how I envisioned them, as are the rhino boys (save for horn placement) and the grey lady. It's a testament to KMM's descriptive prose and Rio's skill that these characters so closely matched the ones painted on my mental canvas. But that's what makes the deviations all the more disappointing.<br/><br/>The introduction in the beginning and the inside look at character sketches and the *Fever world at the end are themselves worth the price of admission. They kept me from regretting my purchase, but couldn't save the book's rating.<br/><br/>If you can find this on sale, it's worth adding it to your collection for the background info alone; at full price, I wouldn't bother."