Mal peet reviews Malice by Chris Wooding
,,,,it's very hard for an illustrator (in this case, Dan Chernett) to depict huge, monstrous events in a series of black-and-white panels squeezed on to a page the size of an ordinary paperback. It's unfortunate, though, that some of Wooding's grisly imaginings become merely silly in the drawings. Ironically (or perhaps encouragingly) the prose is more visual than the pictures. But these are an old man's quibbles. Young teenagers, for whom the book is intended and who are more attuned to the conventions of the games console, are far more likely to be swept along by Wooding's restless, relentless imagination. And to wait impatiently for the next volume.
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