Lush watercolors move with fluid lines throughout this reimagining. Gods mingle with the mortals, and not heeding their warnings could lead to quick danger being mere men, Odysseus and his crew often make hasty errors in judgment and must face challenging consequences. Following Odysseus’s journey to return home to his beloved wife, Penelope, readers are transported into a world that easily combines the realistic and the fantastic. Hinds adds another magnificent adaptation to his oeuvre ( King Lear, 2009, etc.) with this stunning graphic retelling of Homer’s epic. The cast has a wide variety of skin tones, and there’s positive, casual representation and acceptance of queer and nonbinary characters. Once the action starts, however, the heroes’ breaks between facing all manner of men and monsters-notably undead Ashlander armies-become shorter and shorter, building to a nail-biting reckoning of a climax. The journeys of Amhara assassin Sorasa and former Gallish squire Andry, who grapple with changed loyalties, are especially notable for how they play out within the group’s dynamics. The first act is slow, as the characters plan their next moves and their individual story arcs are established. Most of the viewpoints are those of Corayne and her present Companions, with occasional perspectives from other characters (such as Queen Erida, sympathetic in her struggles against sexism despite her evil goals, and Ridha, searching for allies and finding something more) who offer peeks at the rest of the world. Readers may need to refresh themselves with Realm Breaker (2021), as this sequel drops readers right in the thick of the action involving numerous individuals (many of them point-of-view characters) and countries in the story’s complicated geopolitical landscape.
The Companions-Corayne and her fellow ragtag band of unlikely heroes-have won the first battle, but the war is far from over.
Follows Corayne’s continuing quest to save the world from the demon god who is seeking to invade.
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