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5.0 out of 5 stars
Turns Quite Dark (and a bit Scary!),
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This review is from: Bone #7: Ghost Circles (Paperback)
Reason for Reading: next in the series.This volume is one big journey as Gran'ma Ben, Thorn and the Bone cousins travel across a barren land scattered with ghost circles to reach Atheia, the ancient city of the royal family. A brief flash to the Lord of the Locusts and occassional jumps to villagers after the previous battle give a change of pace. But for the most part we have a plot-focused, forward-moving, action-high journey in progress that is a quick, enjoyable read. It's been a good 3 months since I read the last book, so it was a delight for me to come back to this series and find these old friends as delightful as ever. Humour and adventure abound, while this is quite a dark ,and a bit scary, volume. Great stuff! Just two more books to go! (and the prequel)
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great series takes a turn into the grim,
By Eric San Juan (Brick, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bone Volume 7 Ghost Circles (Paperback)
With "Ghost Circles," the seventh of nine volumes, the "Bone" saga gets very, very serious. While still appropriate for all ages (there is nothing here you wouldn't let your eight-year-old read), this is hardly kiddy fare. It's dark, grim and rarely funny."Bone" is an epic story about three "bone creatures" and their adventures in a valley peopled with an assortment of crazy and interesting characters. Looming over it all is the menace of a great evil, revealed slowly over the course of nine volumes, intent on unleashing itself over the world. The series starts off lighthearted, but grows less so as the story unravels itself, as is evident with "Ghost Circles." In "Ghost Circles," despair rules over all. It begins with the death of a supporting character, leads into suffering for all, and sees the main characters trudge through hopelessness before leaving the reader lingering with the hope that maybe, just maybe, a good end will come for the good guys. Here, several story threads move ahead independent of each other, the characters separated by a great calamity in the valley. Throughout the volume, the threads appear to be drawing together - even as evil grows. When finishing this, you'll reach for the next volume right away. Smith combines the kind of classic storytelling perfected by the likes of the legendary Carl Barks (Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge) and Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes) - pure cartooning with outrageous and expressive faces and gestures - with the epic and engaging plotting of a sweeping fairy tale. "Bone" manages to balance the two well enough to be something fans of both Donald Duck and Frodo Baggins can enjoy. Jeff Smith's "Bone" series may be critically acclaimed, but it is also criminally overlooked. And that's too bad, because this deserves to be read. And in the long run, it will be. There is no doubt people will still be reading "Bone" 50 years from now. Broad and epic in scope yet personal and quaint, this is a charming story in every way that will surely outlast most other comic works on the shelf.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Ghost Circles Review,
By Fala Gillroy (Huntsville, Alabama United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bone Volume 7 Ghost Circles (Paperback)
The dilagoue is very exotic damped in the usual supense. I admired the well crafted drawings in ink text. Perhaps the ending leaves you lingering for a settled outcome and not held in high climax action. A well balanced adwantage to the epic saga is the modern humor clashing with the medival views. Jeff Smith has mastered this comic with another inspiring idea of his imagination. He clung to some of the old traits he devloped in his pervious books. However,this is forgiven and I wish for you to read this. Get some hands on experince by reading the whole printed script collection first.
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