Sky Orb

by Marie D'Abreo

SECOND EDITION From the creator of A girl’s trip through the looking glass and Lost in A corporate drone takes an unexpected trip, a father and daughter seek different kinds of healing, a phone-gazing twentysomething tries to figure out his real-life relationships, a girl's love life throws her into existential angst… Sky Orb interweaves the stories of eight characters from different worlds, searching for connection and meaning in their urban wilderness. A graphic novel for ages 16 and up.

194 pages, Paperback

Published July 9, 2018

About the author

MARIE D'ABREO is a graphic novelist. She is author and illustrator of:

Beautiful Book One: A Girl's Trip Through the Looking Glass
Beautiful Book Two: Living with the Frenemy
Beautiful Book Three: Game of Crones
Lost in Guyville
Sky Orb

Marie grew up in Worthing, a seaside town in England. She has a B.F.A. from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and now resides in San Francisco, California.

Reviews

[Sandra Lopez · Rating 3 out of 5]

This graphic novel picks up where Lost in Guyville left off. Oscar was still living at his parents’ house when Alex moved to CA; now he’s venturing off on his own.

This book follows the lives of eight different characters. Amelia is on a flight home and has a bizarre dream.

The characters start off fairly modern and normal, then drift off into Hippie Dippie Land, a strange, fantasy realm in their brains. It was weird! The art was just so bizarre.

None of the stories really evolved and didn’t end. The sketches were nice, but still child-like.

I’d say readers are much better off with Lost in Guyville by this author. This book was just not worth it. Definitely not worth the $6 Kindle price.

[Emma]

I love a weird graphic novel for weird art people. It’s definitely not for everyone, but I love the liminal spaces and the way the visuals contribute to the emotional context (definitely an advantage of graphic novels). The story vignettes are dreamlike, in that you enter each character’s lives in the middle with little context and learn along the way, but there is no resolution. It can be frustrating to not see resolution (seen in other reviews. haha) but I felt that was kind of the point: it’s more about asking questions and communicating a Mood than furthering a Plot or a Lesson. It’s more of an art piece than a book and I can appreciate that for sure

[Agibbs1978 · Rating 2 out of 5]

Definitely a more mature graphic novel. There is 8 different characters that did not really connect in their stories. I haves enjoyed her other graphic novels much better. Not sure about this one.