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The intrigue and royal conspiracy in the Bard’s Richard III is given a dark manga twist that will appeal to aficionados of both comics and the classics.
About the author
Aya Kanno was born in Tokyo, Japan. She is the creator of
Soul Rescue,
Blank Slate, and the
New York Times best-selling series
Otomen.
Summary
The intrigue and royal conspiracy in the Bard’s Richard III is given
a dark manga twist that will appeal to aficionados of both comics and the
classics.
Richard, the ambitious third son of the House of York, believes he
is cursed, damned from birth to eternal darkness. But is it truly fate that sets
him on the path to personal destruction? Or his own tormented longings? Based on
an early draft of Shakespeare’s Richard III, Aya Kanno’s dark
fantasy finds the man who could be king standing between worlds, between
classes, between good and evil.
England’s new king, now a slave to
the witch Jane, gives himself over entirely to debauchery. Richard, unable to
overlook George’s constant errors, schemes to arrest his brother, just as
a killer who resembles Richard himself is conspiring behind closed doors.
Meanwhile, Richard’s mysterious body becomes an object of interest...
