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Dark One
Fantasy
Dark One
Book 1 of the Dark One series
Paul Tanasin is a young man haunted by visions of Mirandus, a fantasy world in which he appears destined to become a terrifying Dark One. His psychiatrist mother tries to understand his experiences as mental illness, even as evidence suggests the other world may be real. Paul is caught between a heroic narrative that casts him as the villain and his own uncertainty about whether destiny can be trusted. Brandon Sanderson’s Dark One graphic novel, developed with collaborators, combines portal fantasy and metafictional prophecy around a protagonist who discovers that being assigned the role of monster does not make the story simple.
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Moderate frightening/intense material
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