Victors
by Wren James
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9781529515978
From the author of Tiktok sensation The Quiet at the End of the World comes a graphic novel about what happens after you’ve saved the world.
“This witty, stylishly drawn enemies-to-friends YA graphic novel elegantly subverts the ‘chosen one’ trope” - Guardian
“Funny and fantastical, with a generous helping of trauma!” - Alice Oseman
The prophecy foretold they would be enemies … it didn’t mention they’d be flatmates.
Four years ago, Dirk Earnest defeated the Demon Overlord and his horde. Now he’s just a normal university student. (Or trying to be.) Dirk has many adoring fans who follow his every move in person and online, but he’s also crushingly lonely. Cue his new flatmate, Medusa de la Tempête: art student, former evil minion, war criminal … and Dirk’s nemesis.
Either the two of them will kill each other, or they’re going to discover what it really means to live.
For readers who love:
- Forced proximity
- Enemies to friends
- Found family
- Platonic soulmates
- University AUs
- …and quippy banter
This simultaneously slick and crunchy YA graphic novel is full of surprising delights. Now that the demon war is over, two teen soldiers on opposing sides must learn how to adapt to regular life (and tolerate each other as flat-mates!). James’s world building and characterization is brilliant, and Fuller’s expressive and detailed illustrations breathe so much charm and life into them. This story shines in its explosive action-packed fantasy scenes, but perhaps even more so in its quiet emotional moments. Dirk and especially Medusa (an abrasive changeling shapeshifter with alternative vintage fashion sense whose only real friends are crows) have my entire heart.
Eden, Unity Books wellington
