A comic about the magic of the love of books. If you don't love this, I don't even. ( )

Talisman is an intricate book which examines the contradictions inherent in living, how people must resign their urges for dreaming and reality, innocence and cynicism, and the belief in magic even though it's been proven quite brutally that it doesn't exist. McNeill uses a brilliant juxtaposition of detail and inference to illustrate the anguish of growing up while needing to hold tight to the stories of childhood. She creates a vivid world where tiny dinosaurs roam open air marketplaces and technology can falsify feeling. ( )

This is my favourite book of the series, focused on only one character of the Finder series. If you are a bibliophile, you are likely to find yourself drawn towards the storyline (i.e. the love a kid has towards a book in her childhood and her eternal search for the lost book in her adult life) and the graphics will impress you. Highly recommended. ( )