A number of years ago, I was volunteering at my local library for the summer. As I normally do, I get hooked on a certain genre at a time, and in this case, I was enjoying all things graphic novel. During the downtime in helping kids register for the summer reading program, I’d read through them like water. Graphic novels had started getting quite popular and my library was very good about getting new books in regularly. I went through ones like Sweet Tooth and Saga, “covers” of books like Percy Jackson and Frankenstein, even children’s books like Roller Girl and Smile. When I picked up Beautiful Darkness, I figured it was another cutesy kids’ book. The art colorful and sweet, the title making me think it’ll be a fairy tale with the darkest things being the woods at night. Oh boy, was I wrong.