Brought up among the Gentry, Jude has never felt at ease, but after a decade, Faerie has become her home despite the constant peril. Human Jude (whose brown hair curls and whose skin color is never described) both hates and loves Madoc, whose murderous nature is true to his Faerie self and who in his way loves her. Jude-broken, rebuilt, fueled by anger and a sense of powerlessness-has never recovered from watching her adoptive Faerie father murder her parents. The illustrations offer bursts of hot colors and beautiful sequences that highlight the queer, multiracial cast.īlack is back with another dark tale of Faerie, this one set in Faerie and launching a new trilogy. In exciting action scenes and sweet romantic subplots, readers, too, will start asking questions. This sequel raises the stakes as Pan continues to explore different aspects of feminism. Everyone on the fleet seems to have a different opinion as to which strategy to follow now, but they have to decide soon, especially with the pirates on their tail. This leads Pan to open up about Tara’s delayed message and her self-doubts. Pan finally gets through to Scottie, the latest princess, who shares that she never actually wanted to be saved in the first place and had plans for doing good in her role as queen. Unfortunately for them all, she only ends up alerting pirates to their whereabouts. When she finally does emerge, it’s to ping her location, signaling wardens to come take her home.

They currently have one onboard, but she won’t come out of her room.

But she and the crew must focus on their plan to continue freeing other princesses. Now she is startled to hear Tara crying and saying they made a mistake. Pan wakes up with an audio message from the past: Five years ago, she helped her best friend, Princess Tara, escape the fate of an unwanted marriage. A popular webcomic returns with more galactic drama.

Hannah templer