Rating: 3/5
Ed Brubaker is a great writer. His stories are always really engaging, with interesting characters and decent dialogue. He likes to play the long game with his books, which means the stories tend to be revealed slowly with not a whole lot going on. Plenty happens in this first volume of Fatale, but it is just beginning to scratch the surface.
Jo is the most interesting part of this book. She is the titular fatale and she gets wrapped up in all the different storylines. My problem is that she is kept to the sidelines. I wanted more of her story, but I got to read more about all of the different men that she has been involved with.
The cult aspect is pretty good. It doesn't push things too far, and for the majority of the book it doesn't delve into the fantastic. But I want more of that too. It makes the setting much more interesting to have that supernatural element creep in. As things are, the book didn't interest me enough to seek out volume two, but it is quality work from Brubaker and Phillips.
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