Wires and Nerve
Young Adult Fiction
Macmillan
January 31, 2017
Paperback
240
The first graphic novel from #1 NewYork Times and USA Today bestseller Marissa Meyer! In her first graphic novel, bestselling author Marissa Meyer extends the world of the Lunar Chronicles with a brand-new, action-packed story about Iko, the android with a heart of (mechanized) gold.When rogue packs of wolf-hybrid soldiers threaten the tenuous peace alliance between Earth and Luna, Iko takes it upon herself to hunt down the soldiers' leader. She is soon working with a handsome royal guard who forces her to question everything she knows about love, loyalty, and her own humanity. With appearances by Cinder, Cress, Scarlet, Winter, and the rest of the Rampion crew, this is a must-have for fans of the bestselling series.
WrensReads Review:
So you remember the ending of The Lunar Chronicles? Well what was Cinder going to do with a bunch of wolve-hybrid-men who want to eat people? Well she wants to help them and get them fused into the community.
But as flesh-hungry beast, they don’t always want to listen. Sometimes, they want to stay on earth and have a feast. So who do you call when the Eartheners don’t trust the Lunars to come down and get all their puppy-men because they may want to control them with their minds? How about a robot named Iko!?
I think this volume was a great start to the series. It’s really hard to transition from one art form to the next, as you all are well away from books-to-movies or books-to-television-series. Graphic Novel transitions aren’t any different.
Iko was portrayed really well I thought. Her personality really came through and I liked that she was the main focus of the series. She was the only one who didn’t pair up in the series so I thought maybe she deserved her happily ever after. I also thought she was one of a kind because she was an android with an actual personality.
Other characters, I didn’t think were portrayed very well. Example Thorne. First, he looked like a teenage boy. Second, he seemed kind of spineless and like a teenage boy instead of the space-pirate I fell in love with.
For such a pretty world, I thought maybe the illustrations didn’t really fit the story. Standing by themselves, I liked the illustrations. But for something from The Lunar Chronicles, I expected a little more..pretty? That might just be me though.
Overall, I thought it was a good start. I went into the graphic novel knowing there were going to be some bumps since we are transitioning into a different from of story telling, and I can tell you it went a lot smoother. I can’t wait to read the second volume!
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