Representation: N/A?
Trigger warnings: Kidnapping, disappearance of a mother, near-death experience
Score: Seven points out of ten.
This review can also be found on The StoryGraph.

After reading Sunshine by Jarrett J. Krosoczka I picked this one up for something similar to this except that it had a lot more fantasy aspects inside this and wow did it deliver since there were so many good things about it, where do I even begin. It starts with a flashback with the main character Ben living his life with both his parents at the time but then it cuts to the present day with his sister Saoirse and their mother disappeared in the past and they haven't seen them ever since. For some reason Saoirse discovers a magic white glowing coat that allows her to go under the sea since she is a selkie much to Ben and his father's shock; the father then proceeds to dispose of the coat. A few pages in Ben and Saoirse were forcibly taken away by their grandmother to the city apparently to protect them but anyways Saoirse disappears so Ben goes off to find her which takes up most of the novel and I liked the parts where the Irish mythology is explained though I couldn't actually pronounce the Irish words; there is a handy glossary at the back to clear things up. Now with that being said Ben goes off alone across so much distance it's hard to believe how he even got to the end alive but he did find his sister along with his mother; she couldn't return to him because she was never human and if she went to the human world everything would fall apart, so there, that's the reason. ( )

This is one of my favorite animated movies of all time! I am thrilled that a graphic novel adaptation has been made. This is a selkie story filled with a lot of Irish folklore, but mostly it's a story about the love of family and sticking together even when times are tough. I love it and hope you do too. ( )