![]() ![]() With limited exposition, Zabarsky’s subtle art settles the reader into a dreamlike world populated with imaginative beings. After the child, Lue, is discovered, the two are banished to a strange and unknown world, unable to tell Valissa where they’ve gone. Now alone, Preet finds and plants a seed, raising the resultant child alone against the island’s strongest traditions. When a strange, harmful mist emerges from the library that houses their people’s history, nonmagical Valissa volunteers to descend into the island’s depths. ![]() Valissa, the village’s dark brown–skinned, brown-haired librarian, and Preet, a powerful Shaper with light brown skin and white hair, share a tender bond. ![]() In an inventive feat of mythmaking, Zabarsky’s ( Witchlight) sophomore graphic novel is set on an island where individuals canshift form and shape elements, and where children are born through seeds left behind by the dead. ![]()
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