Dreams Factory
London, 1892. Like most children in the working-class town where she lives, Indira works the coal mines every day without protest. But when her little brother Eliott disappears, nothing matters anymore...
She embarks on a desperate quest to find him and discovers that he is not the only child to have mysteriously disappeared. All clues seem to point to the same person: Cathleen Sachs, the wealthy owner of the coal mines. But why would she kidnap these children?
From the acclaimed writer of NILS: THE TREE OF LIFE and animation designer SUHEB ZAKO (Netflix's "ARCANE"), this adventurous tale of magic and mystery leaps off the page like an animated feature in print.
- Pages
- 136
- First published
- August 30, 2022
- Language
- English
- Edition
- ISBN
- 9781951719524
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Reviews
While the art was gorgeous and the idea really rich and fun, I felt like the story overall was rushed. The illustrations were really aesthetically appealing and the colors did a really good job of echoing the general mood of the story. The story itself is set in the industrial revolution and was super steampunk-esque which is super up my alley and had me intrigued right away. Its also a mystery, which is extra fun in steampunk, and I loved the mystery reveal. The issue came in that when we hit major plot points, they happened really abruptly and often introduced new things without explaining them, which left me confused. A couple of times I also didn't really know who was who in the drawings because so many people were introduced at once and they all looked similar, or they weren't introduced and just suddenly appeared. Overall. I did enjoy this, it just felt rushed.