If you are a fan of high-stakes battles between rival factions and a world powered by magic, noble heroes, vile bad guys, and the charismatic in-betweeners that you are not quite sure if you should trust, than The Looking Glass Wars series, from New York Times Bestselling author Frank Beddor is just what you are looking for. AND YOU ARE IN LUCK! The latest graphic novel from Beddor is just about to release called “Crossfire” and you will not want to miss it.
Over the course of three novels, five graphic novels, and an Image Comics series, Beddor has built a strikingly rich (and dangerous) world on the scaffolding of its source material. The series has garnered praise everywhere from Publishers Weekly to IGN, bridging the gulf between mainstream literary accolades and comics fandom, with over 800,000 books sold in the process. Most young adults — or anyone who has been a young adult in the last 12 years — are dying to know what’s become of our heroine, Princess Alyss, since the last novel.
In the newest graphic novel, “Crossfire,” it seems that things aren’t going too well. Alyss may have ended the violent power struggles of the original book trilogy, but the realm has settled into a state of hesitant cease-fire. Someone has stolen a powerful relic of conjuring imagination — the magical lifeblood of Wonderland — and escaped with it to Earth. And an assassin from Alyss’s own clan tries to kill her. With few left to trust, she calls upon someone with no allegiances at all: the dashing Bond-like scoundrel Ovid Grey. What happens next is, well, why don’t I let Grey tell you in his own words? “Alone in an alien realm. Forced to keep my true identity secret. A race against time to stop the spread of black imagination. A mission which only I can complete. Alyss was right, this IS going to be fun…”
Pick up the series if you haven’t read it and definitely don’t forget to get “Crossfire” when it releases on April 19.