Favole, Book One: Stone Tears [Hardcover]

Victoria Frances (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 48 pages
• Publisher: Heavy Metal Magazine (August 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932413812
• ISBN-13: 978-1932413816
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #234,177 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great artist with potential to be greater., January 17, 2008

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Isabel - See all my reviews

This review is from: Favole, Book One: Stone Tears (Hardcover)

About the book: Victoria is a very good artist (I do not vouch for her writing skills yet). The only flaw in her art is the lack of proper perspective, but when lost in the contemplation of it, you just forget about it. She could improve both perspective and architectural painting, but considering that she's only 25, she has good time to solve those little flaws.

However, and despite those flaws (which are hard to notice unless you are a freak like me and pay great attention to every little detail), her art is amazing... Her women and characters take hold of the image and the backgrounds blur after them. The skins, hair and clothes are amazing, the general overall feeling impressive. It's a weird kind of gothic... It's melancholic, but not desperate. It's lonely, but not horribly so... It's sad and beautiful at the same time.

I have reported the first review of this book as inappropriate: if the book arrived damp and spoiled, it is not the book's or Victoria's fault. It would be like labelling a job dangerous because you sprained your ankle on your way to it. Besides, to all customers: if one of amazon products arrives in bad state, you can send it back and they send you another one, with absolutely no trouble. Accidents happen, and if you are lazy enough not to send back spoiled merchandise, you can't blame the author or the editorial.

This book by Victoria has gotten an one star rating only because the delivery service failed, and the book was broken. It is grossly unfair to the artist and to the editorial, who have created a good product. You don't rate Coca-cola as crappy when a bottle arrives broken: you just return it and demand a replacement.

But back to Victoria: her women are beautiful, melancholic, somewhat scary too... Her backgrounds could improve, but they don't really matter, since they are there just to add to the feeling, and not to take your attention from the characters, which are the real protagonists.

I do not like dark art, I don't like horror movies or things creepy, and the sight of blood in a drawing creeps me off. Still, I love Victoria's art. And that's the highest compliment I can pay her.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eye catching!, January 14, 2008

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M. Bennett "Dragon Tears" (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Favole, Book One: Stone Tears (Hardcover)

I love Victoria's work. If you like vampires, you will too. It is full of beautifully done art work that has a dark side. I can look at the book over and over again and see things I didn't notice before. Such fine detail!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars beautiful, February 13, 2008

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Stevie Mcculloch (washington) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Favole, Book One: Stone Tears (Hardcover)

this book is wonderfully written and illustrated. the only downer with it, is how short it is. the book in length took a little less then ten minutes to read. but the art was amazing.