Justin Partridge’s Reviews > The Talisman > Status Update

Jack and Richard Go To War.

I am really appreciating how much tonal similarity there is between this and The Eyes of the Dragon. I’m really glad I read that first before this one.

I have to give this back this week and I don’t want to now. It’s too damn fascinating and sad now.

This thing is stressing me the fuck out.

The Sunlight Home.

I have a distinctly horrible fuckin’ feeling this isn’t going to work out keen for ol’ Travelin’ Jack and our goodest boy Wolf.

marked the wrong page# earlier but this thing continues to be ultra weird (and gratingly regressive, skewing toward outright homophobic in swatches?) but oddly compelling.

The addition of Wolf is a good one, despite his Tom Cullen-like dialogue. Jack needed a foil and heavy and he is functioning as both right now and I’m back into it. I dunno I’m very curious how I’m gonna react to this thing’s back half.

This thing continues to be mega-weird. I’ve finally gotten to Wolf (who I thought was like a full on werewolf/giant wolf and not…whatever this is?) but it just keeps making and saying the weirdest possible things. Like that whole subplot with the cruiser? What the hell was that about? I’m interested still to see where it goes though.