Supernova (Amulet, Vol. #8)

by Kazu Kibuishi

Paperback, 2018

Status

Available

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GN KIB

Call number

GN KIB

Barcode

5044

Collection

Publication

Graphix (2018), 208 pages

Description

When Emily loses control of her Amulet, she is imprisoned in the Void, where she must escape the influence of the Voice, while her brother, Navin, travels to a space station where the Resistance is preparing to battle the approaching Shadow forces.

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LibraryThing member krau0098
This is the eighth volume in the Amulet graphic novel series. The illustration remains amazing and the story makes some good progress too. I continue to be impressed with how well done this graphic novel series is.

In this volume Emily struggles to gain control of her Amulet and escape the Void.
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Meanwhile Trellis is trying to take his place as rightful king of the Elves. Navin goes to Lighthouse One and leaves on a mission to help protect the worlds against the Shadow forces.

The story is moving a bit slow and it jumps between a lot of people and places in this book. However, I am still really enjoying it. At some point I would like to sit down and read all these volumes back to back. Since these books seem to be coming out at the rate of a volume every other year it would be great to have a “story thus far” in the front of these books.

There was quite a bit of character development in this series, despite all the jumping around. It was great to see what a force Emily is becoming, and there were some interesting twists around her character in here.

Overall this is another great volume in this top notch fantasy graphic novel series. There is only one more volume in this series and I am eager to see how it wraps up!
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LibraryThing member Faith_Murri
Not as good as the previous books. Slightly bogged down by too many locations. Emily's moral ambiguity and connection to Ikol was nice though.
LibraryThing member Faith_Murri
Not as good as the previous books. Slightly bogged down by too many locations. Emily's moral ambiguity and connection to Ikol was nice though.
LibraryThing member livingtech
My daughter and I have read all of these. I think the series starts off very strong, and has some really powerful parts, but it’s always been a tad off. I dislike how the mother is portrayed in the book, and while I like books with strong young protagonists, in this book, the children are
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constantly either more powerful than everyone else (the main girl, Emily), or being told several times per book that they are natural leaders (her brother). (Which makes no sense, because he’s not shown leading anyone!) Frankly, it’s just weird.

Without going into details that would spoil it, suddenly in this book we have a major new development that felt completely out of left field to me. (Maybe it was hinted previously, but I did NOT get it, if so.)

Also, between the way the 7th book ended and this one began, there were parallels to Akira... which is not a kid’s story, really.

I’ll certainly pick up and read the next one (which promises to be the conclusion), but I don’t really have all that high hopes.
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Rating

½ (55 ratings; 3.9)

Pages

208
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