This was, quite simply, not the book for me. I thought the art was lovely and I enjoyed the aesthetic of this graphic novel but I wasn't drawn into the story. I found it difficult to get through and would realize I had drifted away from the story and would have to back track to reread the parts I had merely passed my eyes over. Its a pretty gory book (at least compared to the graphic novels I normally read), so I definitely felt out of my element with that. I can see this being a super popular book with more fantasy/sci-fi type readers but this just didn't work for me.