Saints concludes the story began in Yang's Boxers but recounts the life of Four Girl who joins up with the Catholics and their converts as a means of escaping her poor family life. Rather than focusing on the religious perspective of the missionaries and their converts, the story shows instead how some Chinese villagers came to support the "foreign devils" after the traditional village way of life ostracized them or failed to offer a promising future. Just as Little Bao had visions of Chinese dieties, Four Girl encounters the spirit of Joan of Arc (the only aspect of the book rendered in gold rather than greys and browns). Four Girl's story ends tragically followed by a final moment with Little Bao in the epilogue. 
 Both Boxers & Saints are well written and illustrated, but they left me feeling sad. The tragic events seemed bred by selfishness and misunderstandings on the part of both sides, and the massive loss of lives seems as though it could have easily been avoided. Such is the case with wars, and I don't enjoy reading about them for the most part.