Rating: 2/5
Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this ebook through NetGalley for an honest review.
The story of Anika Duncan sounds like it should be a lot more interesting. She is a member of a UN taskforce known as the Polar Guard. Her travelling companion, Tom, pilots what appears to be a zeppelin as they patrol the polar region searching for ships breaking international law.
On a routine inspection, they are attacked and Tom ends up dying as a result. This sets Anika on a path of revenge, which her superiors seem to support. I feel like this encounter is intended to make her more likeable, but she never develops much personality in this snippet. The path the story appears to be going seems forced, as if the writer decided where he wanted the story to go but wasn't quite sure how to connect this first piece with the rest of it. Maybe that would be cleared up later, but it makes this issue hard to swallow.
The art was offputting. Part of this is the color choices. They don't go together very well at times. And the illustrations themselves feel incomplete, like the level of detail isn't quite where it needs to be. There is also a problem with the location of the text bubbles in some of the panels. The way they are laid out causes the dialogue to be choppy. They just aren't set up in a way that is normal for this format and it drew me out of the story multiple times.
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