Review: The Stonekeeper

The Stonekeeper by Kazu Kibuishi
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I was looking for interesting graphic novels for my 5-year-old and thought that maybe this one, with almost 30,000 raitings averaging higher than 4, would be a good choise. The art is good, the story is dark, just what the kids want at that stage when they want to be frightened, right? And yes, my kid liked it, so I will have to suffer through at least one more volume, because he wants to know what happened next. Suffer, because the book is marginal at best. The plot is lame, with a number of discrepancies and poor character building. It so doesn't deserve a place among the best graphic novels for children or 500 essential graphic novels.

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