![]() This book compiles the six-part 'City of Secrets' story arcincluding game content by James Jacobs as well as a never-before-released poster map. This comic book is written by Jim Zub with art by Leandro Oliveira, and colors by Ross Campbell. Alongside the characters' evolving motivations and found family tropes, moments of peril become increasingly visceral, accentuating emotional beats of loss and realization. Pathfinder Volume Three: City of Secrets was released in April 2015. Though overlarge speech balloons can detract, Ying's flowing illustrations feature billowy, thin lines and a strong sense of motion that energize the Hugo Cabret tinged story. The two begin a rollicking journey that develops into a close bond as they explore the tantalizing secrets underlying their fantasy steampunk world. When Hannah, privileged daughter of the building's owner, catches wind of Ever, her excitement at Ever's "freedom" lures her from the responsibilities of becoming a lady. Living alone in the six-leveled Grand Capital City of Oskars, Ever, now 12, spends most of his days hiding from the switchboard operators and using a complicated system of levers to manipulate the facility's moving features to protect its workers and guard the safe. įour years before this graphic novel's start, Ever Barnes was orphaned, and he inherited the secret his father guarded before him: a safe that holds a dangerous weapon.But one of them, Lisa, keeps an eye on the boy. Most of the young women who work at the building's Switchboard Operating Facility, which connects the whole city of Oskar, look the other way as Ever roams around in the shadows. On a journey that twists and turns as much as the mechanical building Ever Barnes calls home, he and his new friend Hannah have to find out what's really going on in this mysterious city of secrets. Ever Barnes is a shy orphan guarding a secret in an amazing puzzle box of a building. City of Secrets by Victoria Ying Read the graphic novel that Caldecott medal-winning illustrator, Dan Santat, calls. Lisa and Madame Alexander are each clearly up to something.Įver is beset by a menacing band of rogues looking to unlock the secret he holds-at any cost.Īnd whatever is hidden deep in the Switchboard building will determine all of their futures. She thinks Ever needs a friend, even if he doesn't know it yet. a rather sharp eye.Įnter Hannah, the spunky daughter of the building's owner. ![]() So does the head of the Switchboard, Madame Alexander. ![]() Read the graphic novel that Caldecott medal-winning illustrator, Dan Santat, calls, "An edge-of-your-seat thriller!"Įver Barnes is a shy orphan guarding a secret in an amazing puzzle box of a building.
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