Eternal Empire, Vol. 1 by Sarah Vaughn
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
The Eternal Empress has waged war against the countries of Saia for over 100 years, and now her sights are set on the last country standing. But within the brutal Empire’s workforce, a young man and woman discover they share a synergistic power that could change the fate of the entire world.
Warnings: bestiality, violence, murder
The story in Eternal Empire begins with the establishment of a line of queens, who are part-dragon and part-human, and fully evil. The current ruler is a tyrant and two workers, Tair and Rion, who have been subject to conditions that can best be described as slavery, have visions and find their way to each other to discover they have powers. However, the army of the Eternal Empress is waging war everywhere and the only safe place left will take them through a warzone.
Now, firstly I have to get this off my chest -that artwork just made me cringe. Like, it is full-color and everything which usually makes me joyous, but the lineart itself is so boring, no amount of fantastic coloring could save it. There is no flow between scenes, and the art feels, in a simple word, dead. The storyline isn’t much impressive either. We start with casual bestiality, then we have an underdeveloped villain who is evil for sake of god knows what, and two random characters who somehow get through miles of journey on barely any provisions. Yeah, super believable even in fantasy. This is a series I will NOT be continuing, that’s for sure.
Received an advance reader copy in exchange for a fair review from Diamond Books, via Edelweiss.
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