I don't understand why a book with such beautiful art is so filled with gratuitous violence. it seems like the story doesn't even fit the amount of blood and violence portrayed. why? there are also many pages with no writing at all where the art drives the story, not very well. I almost can't believe this is the same author who did Aster of Pan. I got this book from the Kickstarter campaign a couple years ago and just now got around to reading it. not impressed. but it has the usual high quality of a book published by magnetic press. this will not deter me from reading more books by this author/artist team but this particular book is a letdown.