A secret cabal uses the power of fiction to influence reality. The author of a popular children's books series (which is totally NOT Harry Potter, but, yeah, pretty much like it) learns about this from a diary of Rudyard Kipling. Mark Twain makes a cameo, because he always does, but at least th...
I admit that I was a little bored and may not have made it had my friend not told me a little of the story. It's revealed at the end of this book, and I'm sure it's going to develop further in the rest of the stories. The first book is sort of a world building book that introduces you to the char...
I didn't know what this was. I just knew that people liked it. I knew it was a series that had many issues. I had read some of Carey's other work, but wasn't too blown away.This blew me away.I love it and love that I wasn't expecting it. That's the best. When you don't know it's going to hit you....
Tom Taylor's story is finally unraveling, but instead of answers, we only get more questions and our main hero is even more reluctant to go through with his story ... But it's not like he has any other choice.Though not as action-y as the first volume you'd be happy to know that most of the comic...
The first few issues are a bit of a slog. Tom is now in prison, after being framed for a mass murder. And really, I just wanted to get those over with. Once he escapes, into a ghostly reality built around a book that's been twisted, the story picks up considerably. This is the sort of thing that ...
Well I have completed Volume 2 of my graphic novel experiment. I am still waiting for the story to kick in. Patience....In "Inside Man" Tom Taylor ends up in prison at Villa Diodati in Geneva, Switzerland. There he meets Savoy, a prisoner who is on assignment as a reporter to cover Tom. Lizzi...
I read this because we started watching Ender's Game while at Kelly & Matt's. We didn't finish the movie but I liked what I saw. While perusing some audio books at the library for my car trip to SC I found this and thought it might be good. I started the trip with a romance, couldn't stand it, an...
Even better than volume two! Carey ups the metafiction stakes by inserting a Choose Your Own Adventure chapter! Marvelous! I'm disappointed that the story-within-the-story has taken on a cliche messianic quality, but the author in me loves the tension over a hack version of the tale being writt...
Seeing a team of friends working together like this, against the odds and so forth, always leaves me smiling, despite the horrible occurences around said friends. I've gotten invested in both Tom, Lizzie and Richie, and I want to see not only where their quest ends, but also learn more about them...
A lot can happen in a couple of days. The new and we-mean-it-this-time-last Tommy Taylor book has been released, and it's not the fraud that Tom's enemies thought they were getting. However, Wilson Taylor himself has been killed, forever closing off the easiest route for Tom and his friends to fi...
Next to the Leviathan volume, this one might be my second-favorite. It was longer than most of the other collections, which let me feel like I could get deeper into the stories being told. That's one thing I have trouble with in these -- everything jumps around so much, just when I feel like I'm ...
This rating is for the series as a whole so far. While I have liked parts of it, overall it has left me pretty cold. The story was OK, with some unexpected fun here and there, but it lost me with the characters. While there were some vivid supporting ones (Wilson's publisher and the prison war...
I'm not if it's because I haven't read this series in a while or something else, but this volume was very confusing to me. I felt like I missed out on something. There are some good moments in this, but overall very confusing. I'm just glad this books is not becoming more like Animal Mn and Pr...
This volume was just ok. Maybe the 1-month wait for the library copy affected my enthusiasm, but then I just never made it a priority and left it lying around for another month. When I did start reading, I felt disconnected and disinterested. The flashbacks were informative but not fun, and I had...
This volume was easier to understand then the previous volumes. I'm digging the concept and the Tinker part was kind of cool. But why does this read like Promethea so much. It's got the same concepts and even mentioning Prometheus. I mean that entire Tinker story was on of the clearest for Un...
This review is for books 1-5.This is what one might call the graphic novel for book lovers. The whole idea is that books fuel the world. That people can come together to all love a book, think about a book and that will fuel the magic that the world is lacking yet needs. But there's this group...
Fantastic. This and the volume that follows it are the strongest part of this series, using the intertextual metafictional aspects of comics and putting them to great use in an adventure story that is aware of the narratives tropes of stories, but finds ways to both frustrate them and fulfill the...
I have no love for the Pauli the rabbit story line so we'll just pretend it doesn't exist. This was a strong story that shows how much they can play with the plot and the characters in a way that not only stretches out the main story but entertains the reader. With this arch we see the trio (and ...
Loved the third installment - there is a fake version of a new Tommy Taylor novel (not a spoiler - that is clear to the reader very quickly), and it's all ripped off from elsewhere - fun to try to catch all the references (Michael Moorcock, Philip Pullman, and so forth). Also, we get Lizzie Hexam...
good series! Unwritten is both fantastic and clumsy, hard to follow and sweeps me away. I love it.
Tom Taylor's war with the villainous Cabal is over. Pullman (or should we call him Cain?) is finally dead, after a life spanning (if he is to believed) most of human history, but the damage he did on his way out continues to resonate. Before he died, Pullman harpooned the Leviathan, the manifesta...
Fair Warning: Spoilers. The kids that were killed back in Volume 2 come back from the dead in this book.Viewed with hindsight, this makes their death a little more understandable/palatable. I don't doubt that Carey knew they would be back, and perhaps that led to him not treating their deaths wit...
I'm probably revealing a great deal about myself by saying I loved this one as much or maybe more than the main Unwritten series. I really did like the Tommy Taylor story a lot, and I missed it whenever the storyline went back to the adult, "real-life" Tom Taylor story. Sure, maybe all that stuf...
The book contains 6 characters' Origin stories, namely Wolverine, Jean Grey, Colossus, Sabretooth, Gambit, and Beast (not necessarily in that order).The artworks are good, but what I don't get is the different costume designs for each story even though they are all part of a same book (I know the...
You might think that helping a friend's widow to stop a lawyer from stealing her husband's corpse would be the strangest thing on your To Do list. But life is rarely that simple for Felix Castor. A brutal murder in King's Cross bears all the hallmarks of a long-dead American serial killer, and it...
Nicky wasn’t exactly thrilled to host, but he was still feeling sheepish about missing the boat with the anagrams in Asmodeus’ summonings, so I had a little leverage to work with. He let us in off the street, giving the bundle in my arms - Juliet, now wrapped in my greatcoat and still more or les...
“If I may speak my heart, Lady Gursoon, I think it’s because the City of Women finds it expedient to have a man for its ambassador—and you don’t know that many men who you actually trust.” “Do you think you could take on this role for us?” “Of cours...
I’ve always wanted to write that, ever since I read my first hardboiled detective novel. Anyway, the jig was up, and I was left staring down two very pissed off angels who knew who and what I was. So things were indeed likely to get very messy in the next few minutes. Let ...
