I really wish I had been using Goodreads properly back in August when I was re-reading this, as I cannot for the life of me recall just how much I liked this volume so I cannot think which rating to give it. I feel like I remember being a bit.... bored... perhaps in places so I will stick with a 4 star rating - but I may need to re-read these books in early 2015 and give a proper review to them.This volume of Fables sees the end of the war with the Homelands, and what an end it is. I love the use of 'Mundy' weapons against the Adversaries remaining troups, and I personally thought the flying ship idea was genius. The sacrifices made here are noble ones - I'd even go so far as to say they almost return one character to their 'natural' fairy tale status.I do have one quibble however. In the early volumes the Fables in the Mundy world say that their... health, I guess, is linked to how much they are thought about by Mundys... so when Snow and Bigsby were being attacked by Goldilocks she put up more of a fight and survived more because she is such a popular character. Now, I would say that the death in this volume is of a much more famous fairytale person - so could they not survive/be-reborn/whatever it is? I mean.... Snow survives a headshot with a sniper rifle so surely anything is possible? Well here we are, The Great Homeland War of Fabletown vs The Adversary. So much build-up for such a hurried conclusion, but a real blast to read all the same. The weakened adversary threw a heck of a punch, but Fabletown and Arabia amassed a decent plan and executed it well. Twists and turns galore as Boy Blue plays the the central narrator for the war. All in all, the story just plays out from A to B to C. Great art as always, with a nice epilogue promising more Fables for eternity to come. Hopefully the next great storyline has a better paced conclusion.
Do You like book Fables, Vol. 11: War And Pieces (2008)?
The ending is a little anticlimactic but the story is good.
—Mimi
so awsome how these vol get everytime 5 stars
—mk1217
