A fabulous, grotesque and lurid vision of subterranean life, recalling A Voyage To Arcturus or Veins Of The Earth in its determined strangeness. Alas, there are people here too, many drawn in a caricature style which would be fine for an editorial cartoon but gets trying at length. Nor are their stories anything new, with the rivalry of science and religion, religion and desire all following well-worn paths (and desire in particular is present in that distinctly French fashion which may give even non-religious readers pause). Still, well worth a look just for its caverns and creatures.

(Netgalley ARC)

This was SO WEIRD and so beautiful! I takes elements and inspirations from Dante and Jules Verne and manages to create something totally original and interesting that is also visually stunning, gross and creepy! Loved it!

The illustrations in this book are sometimes disturbing and the story isn't scared to go to some uncomfortable places, which is what I think makes is stand apart from so many others. For that reason alone, I really enjoyed it.

Charlie, a young girl, is taking part in an expedition underground to find her missing brother. The deeper underground the party goes, the stranger their discoveries and the more they change - it's a tough book to review because it's an experience rather than a story. The illustrations transport you into someone else's imagination and shows you things you'd never have dreamt up yourself.

A fun graphic novel. Interesting art style and story to go with it.

I am not a prude. Really I am not. I love the female body in all forms. But, what is it with European male cartoonist that they feel it is perfectly normal for women to shed their clothes and run around for half or more of the story almost completely naked? It throws me out of the story, as I wonder how they could be walking or running around barefoot, and bare chested.

Having gotten that off my chest (no pun intended), the story is ok. Charlie is trying to find her brother who has gone into the underworld to prove it exists. The first half of the story is her journey to find him, and all the people she takes with her, and meets along the way. The first half of the story she manages to keep her clothes on.

The story itself is ok. It just didn't draw me in, because although I cared about Charlie, I did not care about her brother, or any of the other people along the way, and then the story went off the rails and Charlie is in her undies, and the story went down hill from there.

Obviously not written for me. YMMV.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.