Virgil always speaks for her, believes she hates video games, and chooses food she doesn’t like, making it hard to communicate with him. Sixteen-year-old Vicky Tan lives in the shadow of her older brother, Virgil, an e-sports champion and her legal guardian. YA)Ī talented gamer hides her identity and competes in an e-sports tournament. Don’t confuse this hefty, respectful adaptation with some of the other recent ones this one holds nothing back and is proudly, grittily realistic rather than cheerfully cartoonish. The artist’s use of color is especially striking: His battle scenes are ample, bloodily scarlet affairs, and Polyphemus’s cave is a stifling orange he depicts the underworld as a colorless, mirthless void, domestic spaces in warm tans, the all-encircling sea in a light Mediterranean blue and some of the far-away islands in almost tangibly growing greens.
Lush watercolors move with fluid lines throughout this reimagining. Gods mingle with the mortals, and not heeding their warnings could lead to quick danger being mere men, Odysseus and his crew often make hasty errors in judgment and must face challenging consequences. Following Odysseus’s journey to return home to his beloved wife, Penelope, readers are transported into a world that easily combines the realistic and the fantastic. Hinds adds another magnificent adaptation to his oeuvre ( King Lear, 2009, etc.) with this stunning graphic retelling of Homer’s epic. Delicious.Ī tender blend of sugary, buttery, and other complex flavors that’s baked with a tremendous dash of heart. Family recipes referenced in the text code Hector as Samoan. The romance between Ari and Hector builds slowly, focusing on cute interactions long before progressing to anything physical. Ganucheau’s art, in black ink with varying shades of blue, mixes traditional paneling with beautiful double-page spreads of detailed baking scenes, where the panels sometimes take on the shape of braided loaves.
But will it all last? Panetta and Ganucheau’s graphic novel debut is as much a love story between people as it is with the act of baking. Ari, who hates baking, even starts to enjoy himself. The two grow close in more than just the kitchen.
A culinary student in Birmingham, Hector has temporarily returned home to find closure after his Nana’s passing. Under the guise of recruiting another baker to take his place, Ari hires Hector. But the future of their band-and their friendship-drifts toward uncertainty. His friends start to drift toward their own futures. As his family’s money grows tighter, Ari feels tethered in place. High school may have ended, but Ari is stuck with sourdough starter at his family’s bakery instead of summer gigs in the city with his band. Summer love rises between two boys in a bakery.
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