Synopsis:
Schools may lock up for the night, but class is in session for an entirely different set of students. In the Nightschool, vampires, werewolves, and weirns (a particular breed of witches) learn the fundamentals of everything from calculus to spell casting. Alex is a young weirn whose education has always been handled through homeschooling, but circumstances seem to be drawing her closer to the Nightschool. Will Alex manage to weather the dark forces gathering?
Review:
I was going to start this review by saying how nostalgic the art style feels and then I realise this was published in 2010. So that makes complete sense. The style of the characters reminded me of Totally Spies, which is one of the highest compliments you can give art style if you ask me. No other show was putting so much effort into character design.
As we all know by now, I love anything witchy, horror or monster-esque – especially graphic novels. They’re always the best visually, in my opinion. The vampires in particular were really cool. Not the human looking ones, the ones that were just pure darkness. I will say the action scenes were a little hard to distinguish what was going on because there was just so much happening on the page.
Something I’m never a fan of is books jumping into the story straightaway. You’re quite literally thrown into this world of Nightschool without a lot of build up. Thankfully, it doesn’t take too long to understand what’s going on, but just know that the pacing is very fast and you don’t get a lot of character introduction. I’m still not entirely sure why Alex isn’t allowed to attend the school. She’s clearly quite powerful as she takes down three people on her own, without even knowing what she’s doing, but the reasons for her not being
But speaking of the school, what a cool idea. A normal highschool is rented out at night to witches, vampires and werewolves so they can learn spell casting and very normal lessons like maths. The thought of a vampire doing algebra is quite funny to me.
There’s also hunters, just like most books with creatures of the night. This storyline was a little more confusing to follow as they seem to have some kind of powers themselves but they also don’t like other creatures with powers. Maybe this will make more sense in the second volume, which I will definitely check out at some point.
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