Book Review: The Zodiac Legacy book #1: Tiger Island

Book: The Zodiac Legacy book #1: Tiger Island created by Stan Lee

Written by Stuart Moore with illustrations by P.H. Marcondes, color by Matteo Baldright, Roberta Marchetta and Paola Selene Fiorino and letters by Bryan Serika

Cover art by Andie Tong


Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: Available now

Description:

Six teenagers, who recently gained strange, magical superpowers, seek to find a new headquarters, when the Vanguard launches a surprise attack! Using innocent animals against Steven Lee and his friends, they hope to stop the young heroes forever!



Rating: 3 stars

Review:

The Zodiac Legacy series, is a children/middle grade book and comic book series that follows a group of heroes and villains who use Chinese zodiac animal powers.

To get unfamiliar readers caught up, book one opens with a summary detailing who the characters are and what their powers are. The beginning of story shows Maxwell the leader of the villainous group The Vanguard explaining to Mince his newly hired scientific genius about the Zodiac Legacy, how the powers were acquired and how he was betrayed by Carlos his former scientific genius and Jasmine's team. He also mentions that he already has a plan set in place for revenge.

Meanwhile, Jasmine and Carlos were at the state of art facility Mediterra on Tiger Island looking for a possible new headquarter for the team. However, Jasmine was suspicious and wanted the Zodiac heroes Steven who is the leader, Liam, Roxanne, Duane and Kim to go undercover and investigate to see if everything was as stated.

While the team investigated, two of Maxwell's Vanguard agents were unleashing some trouble in the form of rampaging animals terrorizing the island. It was going to be up to the Zodiac heroes to save the day. However, it appears that it was only a diversion with the team unaware of Maxwell's real plan.

Book one does a good job of introducing the characters and setting up the story and making it easy for those who have not read the novels. However, there were times when I felt like more information could have been given but it doesn't ruin anything. This is a fun and action filled story with a diverse group of characters. I love the idea of theses characters gaining powers from the animals of the Chinese Zodiac. The artwork is great, it's colorful and has an anime/manga feel to it.

I think this would make a good read for young reader but I would also recommend reading the novels to get more from the story as well as learning more about these characters.