There is so much in this book I don’t even know what to do with myself. I’d forgotten how FULL it is. It’s easily double the size of the other volumes up until now. Maybe even triple. And it’s clearly the lynchpin that the whole series turns on. The first and most surface thing is that Tom is ready to go to war with the cabal. He believes he has to strike now because he has access to power, and because the cabal hasn’t had […]
The parts where they talk about the Silver Age of comics were pretty neat, too.
(I previously reviewed this book for CBR4. My review can be found HERE.) This one didn’t work for me as well this time around, but it’s still pretty great. Not every book in a series is going to be five stars. It’s not even that I can necessarily point to anything in particular as a reason for my reluctance to give out that five stars like I did the first time I read it, it’s just it didn’t seem as good as the previous four volumes. […]
You know, I speak whale.
“For by art is created that great Leviathan called a Commonwealth, or people . . . which is but an artificial man; though of greater stature and strength than any man might be.” This is the part of The Unwritten where everything crystallizes, and you go ohhhhh, that’s what’s going on! And the reveal happens in such a neat and organic way. After the events of Dead Man’s Knock, Tommy knows he has to find the source of his fathers (and his) mysterious power so […]
In which we get some answers.
The Unwritten continues with a volume that makes the weird and fictional even more indistinguishable from reality. Several things are happening all at once here. Tom, Lizzie and Savoy have reappeared in London after their jaunt in “Jud Suss”, only three months have gone by in the real world for their mere hours spent in “Jud Suss”. Tom is presumed dead in the fire at Donostia prison, and the world is abuzz with the imminent publication of the fourteenth and final Tommy Taylor novel, which […]
This series is like basically the entire reason God invented post-modernism.
“When a book is read, an irrevocable thing happens–a murder, followed by an imposture. The story in the mind murders the story on the page, and takes its place.” “‘Every story has a negative space, Mister Rabbit. Things it can’t acknowledge. Truths it can imply or flirt with, but never say out loud.’ ‘Do I look like I give a flying fuck? Let me go!’ ‘One way of writing for children–her way–is to try to be a child yourself. And then, if you do that […]
Is this the real life? Or is this just fantasy?
Ughhhh, I need to write a review of this but I don’t wanna. Oh, I’m feeling so whiny today. But it’s hard! Writing a review of this is hard! It’s too smart and I have too much to say! WAHHHH. I said in my original review that I might come back later and give this five stars, and indeed that has happened. I’ve only read through Vol. 6, but that’s enough to know how much stuff this was setting up, how much was going on […]