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Crogan's Loyalty (2012)

by Chris Schweizer(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1934964409 (ISBN13: 9781934964408)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Oni Press

series

Crogan Adventures

review 1: Public library copy.This book has been the only book in this series I've read. The public library does not carry any other volumes. I'd be very interested in reading the other volumes or any other work done by Chris Schweizer. The polished black and white art work looked professional and highly stylized in a Pogo or Bone kind of way. I enjoyed how there's a family tree aspect to this title (and the other books spanning across generations of brothers) making this fictionalized story woven in historical non-fiction an immense joy.
review 2: Reason for Reading: Next in the series.I love this series! The third book continues on in the manner we have come to expect. Wonderful, touching story, insightful and thought provoking with plenty of action and some humour a... mores well. The black & white illustrations fit the story nicely and I enjoy the artwork. The books follow no common storyline so reading order is really of no importance and they skip around through time. As usual the book opens with the modern day Crogan family having a little incident and the father finding time to tell his two sons about a male Crogan ancestor to illustrate a point similar to the conflict going on with the boys' lives today. This is a story of brothers disagreeing, but how it all boils down in the end to the old saying that "blood is thicker than water."This being a story of the American Revolution, I was prepared for the Loyalist brother to be the bad guy along with the British army, but was pleasantly surprised to find that both sides of the story were told here without bias. Why each brother chose the side they did was explored and neither one was shown as "wrong" in any sense, nor were the British portrayed as "bad guys". The book focused mostly on the brothers and portrayed the other soldiers/officers as people with good and bad characteristics, reminding us that all soldiers in war are underneath the uniform, just ordinary folks whichever "side" they are on. The only fault I would mention is that this volume did not have as much derring-do as the previous two volumes, there was some, but not quite on par with the first ones. Otherwise, a great, and unique, presentation on the beginnings of the Revolutionary War and mightily enjoyed by this Canadian who just happens to live in the heart Loyalist Country. less

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