Graphic Novel Review – White Sand Vol 2 by Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin, Julius M Gopez (3.5/5 stars)

Reading Level: Young Adult
Genre: Graphic Novel/Fantasy
Length: 160 pages
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Release Date: February 20, 2018
ISBN-13: 978-1524103422
Stand Alone or Series: 2nd volume in the White Sand series
Source: Borrowed from Library
Rating: 3.5/5 stars

“Following the loss of most of his colleagues in a violent ambush, Kenton has become Lord Mastrell of the few remaining Sand Masters, magicians who can manipulate sand to do their bidding. With the ruling council poised against him, the hot-headed Kenton must become a diplomat to have any hope of preventing the eradication of his people forever. However, there’s another complication: assassins are coming for him from all directions, and Kenton’s only true ally is Khriss, a visitor from the other side of the planet who has an agenda of her own to pursue.”

This is the 2nd volume in Sanderson’s White Sand graphic novel series. While this volume continues to have the same issues of the first one (dense text and lots of jumping around) I still enjoyed it.

The main story continues to revolve around Kenton trying to save the fate of the Sand Masters. Khriss, the Duchess, steps up to help him with his diplomacy.

I like the interesting world and the intriguing characters. The illustration for chapters 1-5 really matches the tone of the story and is well done. I found the illustration in chapter 6 to be really confusing; it’s childish looking and the characters’ skin tones changed all the time. The Duchess in particular went from having the same skin tone as Kenton early in the chapter and then having her original much darker skin tone later in the chapter. Consistency please!

Anyway, hopefully the illustration style for Volume 3 sticks with the original illustration style, otherwise I am probably going to stop reading this series.

Overall this continues to be a well done epic fantasy graphic novel series. I enjoy world and characters and hope the story gets a bit more exciting in the next volume. I also hope the illustration stay more consistent in volume 3.