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Sons of Fire: Volume 1 by Adam Lance Garcia

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This was a 3.5 read, rounded up in spite of the fact it had some rough transitions in the scenes.

It opens in a prison with a young man interviewing an obviously burn scarred Jacob Crow 30 years after a major fire in 1976 (That we assume is the reason Jacob is in prison)

Most of volume one deals with Jacob's early life, his father the sheriff who was sidelined by an injure and how his mother left Jacob and his brother with his dad so she could step out with another police officer. When the worst happens, Jacob becomes an unwelcome addition to his mother's new home with this man.

Jacob is also being badly bullied at school to the point there is some serious assault which at the cliffhanger ending where an older boy who has befriended him outs himself as possibly more than human (not really a spoiler, it's in the blurb).

I got both volumes at Tsubasacon so I'm looking forward to the next volume. The black and white pencil and ink in this is very well done, some really nice art.



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