I am a longtime fan of Brandon Sanderson and was not disappointed. The art is gorgeous and the story is told well. There is a shift, which I loved, between fantasy and reality. As most of his books, this graphic novel starts with action. To an extent, I missed the author’s writing as graphic novels usually limit to character’s speaking. However, the concept of this graphic novel was cool and original, but also greatly executed! A lot of credit going to the amazing artist that also worked on this.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me a copy of the ARC!

This is my first Sanderson title and I was not disappointed. The story was captivating, the characters were interesting, and the art was beautiful. Can't wait for the second volume.

I really enjoyed this one! Loved the art style of this comic, I think it did a great job establishing scenes and revealing the emotions. The use of different colored speech bubbles to differentiate some special characters was also something I really enjoyed.

The prologue was nice but what hooked me was how suddenly we went from a fantasy world to the real world and I just kept on turning pages to see how those would be connected. Paul was a great main character and I liked following him along, finding out that he has a bigger part to play in the world.

4/5 stars

I received an ARC of this graphic novel in exchange for an honest review.

Paul Tanasin is a 17-year-old who sees visions. These visions are of another world and they haunt him. A ghost girl also follows him around, claiming to be his sister. However, everything changes when he realizes that the other world is real. Somehow, the other world is tied to his, and it has declared him the Dark One. Without any other options, Paul rises up as the Dark One, fulfilling the role he was given.

I really enjoyed this graphic novel! The story was dark, but I thought it was rather interesting! There's a lot of things happening at once, and I hope that we get more answers in volume 2. The fantasy world itself, especially the way things work there, was really fascinating! I also really liked the magic. The concepts of morals and destiny really added to this story, making me feel sympathetic for Paul and the other characters. The ending of this graphic novel caught me off-guard, so I'm excited to see where this story goes in volume 2!

Fans of dark fantasy and beautiful graphic novels should check this out!

I'm a big Brandon Sanderson fan so I just had to read this graphic novel.
The graphic novel starts out quite fast with little exposition, not a lot is explained you're rather supposed to figure things out while the story progresses. Which in itself is fine but it also made me a little confused at times.

One issue I had was the overall pacing. The story and the art style are great but I feel like Sanderson's story would have needed and deserved more time to unravel. Some things happened really quickly but that is something that's easier done in a novel where you can take hundreds of pages than in a single volume of a graphic novel.
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Still, I quite enjoyed this graphic novel and can't wait for the next volume.

OK, so we have a guy who heads up a NYC law firm, and therefore is in charge of the hottest female legal property in the city. Her son just so happens to be on the psychologist's couch on behalf of his kinda sociopathic tendencies, and what he doesn't admit to – the company of an invisible self-claimed 'sister' from another dimension. But lo and behold, said legal boss bloke is also, get this, a kind of ruler in a fantasy world in another dimension, where an endless battle between dark and light is ongoing. When a death threat comes to New York aimed at the son he too finds himself the other side of whatever it is that divides us from them, but can he work out which side and which position he must adopt to survive, or is his destiny to involve a heck of a lot more than just that?

I've only witnessed this author courtesy a different fantasy GN series, and that was hooked on to, and reliant on prior knowledge of, his prose books. This is much more of an original property. And at times the word 'original' barely covers it – yes, we've often had books that switch from a fantasy world to ours and back, but we seldom get Macbeth-styled machinations on the other side of a page set in a New York courthouse. That's not to say it's a fabulous fantasy, with the dark side being a bit weird – they have floodlights all over the shop, for one. Oh, and headbutt the ground in a poor parody of Islam. The whole mythos is rather woolly, and it's a little too easy to raise eyebrows about who is coming from where to do what and why. Still, for all the soapy two-sided combat the fantasy world revolves around, there seems enough meat on the bones, and more than enough drama to be had in books to come. Expect confusion in the future, yes, but expect lots of operatic action, and perhaps a few hefty switcheroos to pull the rug from under us. As it stands, this volume is probably a three and a half stars.

Paul is the Dark One. But the question is: does he want to be one and even if he is, is he going to act on it?
That is one of my favorite tropes: how a person becomes a villain. I always fall for it and this was no exception. I loved how unfair it is to Paul. He is supposed to be this great evil but no one asked him if he even wants that. Moreover, the evil in this world always loses. So, Paul is destined to become the big bad and fight the good guy only to loose in the end, as did every bad guy before him. I mean, how unfair is that? So this time around, there are going to be some changes.
The concept of the Narrative was really cool. The idea is that there is a way the history is supposed to go, everyone in their destined spot, be it good or bad, and the cycle repeats over and over. It was briefly touched upon in this first volume, but I am sure it will further developed as the series continues.
Paul was a great main character. You know he is bad, but you also see him struggling with that. He goes to therapy in the beginning of the book, because he wants to understand himself better and because he is afraid that he might hurt people. So, when he was pushed into this role he doesn't want to play, I had so much sympathy for him.
This is a good start to a new fantasy series. It has a good plot, interesting moral dilemmas, a pretty cool magic and, of course, some secrets. I wish volume two was already out.
Thank you to Netgalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

It was such a spontaneous read for me!

Don’t get me wrong, I love graphic novels, and I’ve enjoyed books by Brandon Sanderson in the past, just had rather complicated relationship with Stormlight archive (Still can’t get into the first book) …

I loved this novel thought, fairly unique, as all of authors works. Two parallel worlds, teenager that thinks he’s gone crazy and sees things that are not real. His mother, top lawyer in New York has a grip on rather difficult case and somehow that’s all related.

Crazy how these two amazing authors managed to make such a cool story out of something that looked extremely weird from the first sight... Really dark fantasy is usually not, my cup of tea, but I really enjoyed this graphic novel. 😊

Thank you @Netgalley for E-Arc of this novel in exchange for my honest review.

A magical story about a young man facing a new dark fantasy world. Paul has always been haunted by visions of another world, and soon he finds out that his visions are real and not just hallucinations. Along his journey he finds out that theres more to him than he thought and that he has a destiny awaiting him in this new world. This story has a really interesting plot and the magic is awesome!

*Thanks Netgalley and Diamond Book Distributors for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*