I take no pleasure in giving a book a low rating but I can only review it from my own personal perspective and enjoyment of the book and this one just wasn't for me.

I found the art style to be vibrant and stunning, which was ultimately why I picked up this book in the first place. Reading through though, I found it quite hard to decipher what was happening in many of the panels due to the rough/sketch like nature of the drawings. When the graphic novel relied on visual story telling, those parts of the story were often lost on me.

In terms of the story, I felt like there was barely a story there. I know there was probably a much more deeper and metaphorical story to take away from this little book, but it went right over my head. I felt like most of the book is just the narrator recounting the levels in a simple platformer game he remembered, with a bit of something deeper at the end.

Thank you NetGalley and Mad Cave Studios for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own.