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This book was gorgeous! The artwork was just beautiful! I'm not usually a graphic novel reader but this book just drew me in and captivated me. I loved the storyline but my favorite thing was the artwork. I wish I could have more answers and I hope this becomes a series.

I'm giving three stars because I feel like it could be a little more complete and have more answers than it did and that the ending could have been finished a bit more. But the artwork was amazing!

This book is fucking gorgeous.

Such a great story twisting norse myth and the Earth's current climate crisis together. The art is truly incredible and I'd love to see more of this world.

I would hope this is going to form part of a series as some elements of the story either end abruptly or skip ahead in the timeline and because of this some characterization and/or context is lost. If it is intended to be a standalone, the narrative as it stands is a little broken and I'd love the artist to fill in the blanks because their artwork is truly beautiful and inspirational.

I received an ARC from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

The cover immediately drew me in to this graphic novel and the artwork inside follows suit, its gorgeous. They story is about a dystopian future featuring Nordic peoples. There are three main storylines which eventually do connect but to sum it up, the world is dying and the main characters must save it. With the help of friends, common sense, the supernatural, a little luck a battle is waged to save the world.
The artwork was great but the storyline was just ok for me. I had a hard time keeping all of te characters straight so the full story may have been lost on me. That being said, I’d read the second installment to see what happens next.

*I received an ARC of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review*

Right off the bat, this is the type of book that grabs your attention with the cover alone. Its beautiful and the thought of a dystopic Nordic world had me excited to get my hands on it. The problem that the world is facing is that nature is dying. Nothing is growing anywhere it seems and soon humans will follow if they don't figure out the cause.

The book starts of with Nils and his father as they journey away from their village and out into the world to see if they can find land that will grow food and hopefully find the reason as to why everything is happening. What follows is something that is really out of a dystopic world. The old tales of the gods are true and a Kingdom that is extremely technically advance is threatening their very being.

The artwork of this book was beautiful and the story itself could have been very interesting, but I was left with too many answers. The book follows three different story lines that connect at the end, but everything felt like too much and rushed for me.

I saw the cover on Netgalley and fell in love with it. I enjoy reading a graphic novel every now and then so I figured why not!

Although the artwork is stunning, the characters lack and feel underdeveloped. I did like the diversity of the characters and I guess that is what stood out the most for the characters. At times I didn't understand why certain things were happening because they just happened and that was that.

The Norse dystopian world was a concept I haven't read before and that was cool. The author wove technology into it but it wasn't explained that well and left me with unanswered questions.

Overall, I think that this graphic novel had a lot of great concepts/characters but they all needed to be flushed out more. I will say that the artwork was on point throughout!

I really liked the art style of this graphic novel it was really amazing.
The characters and story are good and well developed. The plot ist good thought out and I enjoyed reading it.

**I received an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.**


Jerome Hamon brings us Nils: The Tree of Life, a nordic inspired fantasy graphic novel set in a society where things have ceased growing. The land and people both have become infertile. Nils and his father seek to find the source of the problem with the land, and find themselves in the middle of a conflict between gods and men.

The art style and color choices for this graphic novel are absolutely gorgeous. I have absolutely no complaints about art style and visual representation for this story in the slightest.

I do feel that the characters and story were either under developed, or that the author did not have the space in the less than 200 pages to flesh out the characterization and plot line. As most fantasy fans are aware, when you start to read an epic fantasy, you know you're likely starting in on either a tome or multi-book series. It appears that this graphic novel is intended to be a relatively short standalone, but having the themes and plot of an epic fantasy. Something has to give in this situation, and, unfortunately, the plot came across as abrupt and the characters really could have been replaced by any other characters at all and the story been told in the same fashion.

All that being said, I definitely enjoyed the graphic novel and what I did see, but overall was left wanting more. I would not hesitate to pick up future works from this illustrator or author, but would likely look for series rather than standalones if concepts are in a similar vein as this graphic novel.