writehollydavis
Written on Aug 23, 2020
"In her first graphic novel, Marissa Meyer extends the world of the Lunar Chronicles with a brand new, action packed story about Iko, the android with a heart of (mechanized) gold. When rogue packs of wolf-hybrid soldiers threaten the tenuous peace alliance between Earth and Luna, Iko takes it upon herself to hunt down the soldiers' leader. She is soon working with a handsome royal guard who forces her to question everything she knows about love, loyalty, and her own humanity. With appearances by Cinder, Cress, Scarlet, Winter, and the rest of the Rampion crew, this is a must have for fans of the bestselling series."--Publisher's description.
- ISBN10 125007827X
- ISBN13 9781250078278
- Publish Date 29 January 2019 (first published 31 January 2017)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Square Fish
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 240
- Language English
Reviews
leahrosereads
Written on May 10, 2019
I haven't read Winter yet...or Stars Above.
But, that's OK, because spoilers don't bother me, and I assumed all of the major characters from the books would come out of that series unscathed. Cause, fairytale retellings ya know?
I really liked getting this Iko viewpoint and continuation of the story. The art and coloring of this graphic novel is absolutely stunning, and I wouldn't mind getting more of these side stories of this world in the future.
nannah
Written on Oct 14, 2018
Wires and Nerve takes place just after the series has ended. Cinder/Selene is trying to be the best queen she can be under the current situations and is trying to patch things up with Earth. There's just one problem: she's promised to remove the mutant wolfmen from Earth but has no idea how. Helpful as always, her android Iko has offered to round the packs up herself, and that's basically how this graphic novel begins.
At first glance, the cover art seems pretty dynamic and fascinating. But the first couple pages in, I could tell the art and I weren't going to get along ...
I don't know what it is about the art style but ... I think I'm just not a fan, maybe. Most panels seemed a bit rushed, with lines not even connecting to each other when they seemed like they needed to -- aka the art seemed more like a final draft of sketches rather than something ready to be published. And I know that sounds really harsh; as an artist I especially know how labor-intensive a graphic novel really is too! But character designs all had similar face shapes, expressions, etc.
Except for some rather disturbing things ... I first noticed it on what I think was Emperor Kai's first close up? I had thought every time he was drawn there was a peculiar expression on his face, and then I noticed his eyes were always sketched as that kind of stereotypical closed, slanted East Asian slits. I checked back, and yeah, every time. Every single time, they were slanted slits. Except for maybe his Super Close-ups at the very end, he had those stereotypical racist slits. It's ... painful. For a book with a ton of diversity (in 2018, damnit!), seeing something like this published is just ridiculous. How many people did this have to go through ... and yet still get published?
Anyway, even besides this, I usually enjoy Marissa Meyer's writing because it's rather campy and fun, but I think the art style didn't improve it at all. Maybe it's just not something that goes well with a graphic novel format? I'm not sure what it was to be honest, but the story and its dialogue felt a bit too cheesy to me, but maybe I really was too distracted by the art.
Whatever it Really was, I didn't enjoy this book very much.
liz089
Written on Apr 17, 2018
It is great to see the characters that I have grown to love.. but the story did not really do it for me.
Liz (Bent Bookworm)
Written on Mar 27, 2017
---Actual review to come.
Nessa Luna
Written on Feb 6, 2017
Wires and Nerve takes place after the events of Winter. Cinder/Selene is now queen of Luna, and all is well. But then, Cinder receives news that rogue packs of Lunar Special Operatives are still at large on Earth, wreaking havoc everywhere. Iko decides to travel to Earth to hunt down these packs and bring them back to Luna. But then, a new threat arises.
I am a huge fan of graphic novels and comics, and I love it when books I enjoyed get turned into graphic novels (still waiting for Harry Potter, to be honest). So yes, I was very excited to get my hands on this one, though when I finally did I wanted to save it for as long as I could. Obviously, I didn't, and I ended up finishing the book in two days. And stars above it was beautiful.
The story was great, and for me it didn't feel like it was trying to drag out the original story too much. We got more information on several things that people were probably wondering about after the end of Winter and Stars Above, and I personally enjoyed finding it out in a book rather than finding it out through an interview or a blog post (no shade towards authors to do this, though).
Just revisiting all the characters I fell in love with was incredible, and I loved that we finally got to see what they looked like. Though of course, this is still one person's view on the characters, and it is by no means 'canon'. For example, even though it was clearly described in the books, I never pictured Jacin as a blonde. (I do now, of course, because I did kind of adopt Doug's view of the characters). For me, they all looked almost exactly like I imagined, and I was glad that someone else saw them like this too.
Which brings me to the artwork. It was simple, with only blue tones, white and black used. I am very easily pleased with artwork, but I have to admit my favourite ones are still the very simple ones. Personally I would have loved some little read details, just like the book covers, but I already loved the blue tones very much. Honestly there literally wasn't anything I could think of that I didn't like about this book, other than the fact that it ended.
For me, Wires and Nerve was a great success, and I will certainly reread this graphic novel after rereading the Lunar Chronicles (which I honestly felt like doing again, even though I literally just reread them). If you're not entirely sure you want to read this novel, you can check out an excerpt here. If you love the Lunar Chronicles as much as I do, what are you waiting for, go and pick up this novel! Even if you're not a huge fan of graphic novels, just give it a try!
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