Reading [Novel; SP] Volume 2: MARDŪK

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Are you okay? I hope everything is fine on your side and that you were able to enjoy the sun! I take you to a reading review and more precisely a sequel because I had already told you about the first volume. With that, I'll leave you with the summary.

The Four — Rashele (French), Side (Egyptian), Dyane (Mexican) and Tim (Cambodian) share a common destiny: they were born on April 4 at midnight, during a tragic planetary eclipse. The story begins on Mayall, a planet ruled by Adele, the ruler of humanity. After a year of apprenticeship, they return to Paris, charged with a mission: to prevent a confrontation between good and evil, a quest that leads them to discover their identity.

On the eve of the Four's birthday, Adele's daughter Acme warns them of an enigmatic message that threatens the balance of the Earth. During the eclipse commemoration, Side and Tim are captured. While searching for their friends, they meet Dosh, a vigilante cop with an enigmatic past. The plot originates from the rivalry between two enemy sovereign brothers, Adele and Limaudet. The latter seeks revenge on Adele by forcing MARDŪK, a Babylonian blacksmith, to create an ellipsis that will cause chaos.

After a series of adventures around the world with their friends, Manu (head of the Sûreté de Paris), Kaambe (the old scholar), Manica the grumpy oracle and her turtledove Quetzal, the Four find the portraits of their ancestors who lead them to the gardens of Babylon to destroy the ellipse. Dosh discovers that he and MARDŪK are one, existing simultaneously in two parallel universes.

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We find the characters we had already met in the previous volume for my greatest pleasure. Their previous mission successful, they studied before returning to Earth and discovering that another threat is present. Anyway, in short, it's all well and good, but what did I think of it? Well, it was even better than its predecessor because the descriptions were way more detailed. Yes, I know it's an element that pleases or doesn't depending on each person and for my part it always hits the mark.

Being able to imagine the scenes or places as well as possible, to feel what the characters perceive with their own senses, it's a small personal pleasure. This allows you to travel, visualize and reflect on what is happening as well. Telling yourself that you wouldn't go to this place, that that one else makes you want to, these are elements that can be trivial, but not for me.

Because it also allows you to enter the psyche of the characters you follow, to understand their feelings as well, their reactions. It's not nothing, I think, because they make a living from it. In addition, they have grown up, a year has passed so yes, some things have changed and that's normal because time passes, they have experienced different things.

The illustrated side really gives you a good job and allows you to immerse yourself a little more in the work, to stay there before having to leave it at the end, to wonder what it will be like next. We are not bored in any way thanks to the words or the images, the whole thing remaining coherent, blending wonderfully and keeping this fluidity already present in the first volume.

In summary, I loved discovering this sequel, finding those I had already met before. It is coherent, makes you want to be read! A nice surprise that will have hurt my heart at times, but that I am delighted to have gone through.

And you, do you plan to dive into it ?