{"id":23682,"date":"2021-02-10T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=23682"},"modified":"2021-02-09T17:07:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T17:07:39","slug":"heart-in-a-box-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2021\/02\/10\/heart-in-a-box-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart in a Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Kelly Thompson <\/strong>& Meredith McClaren<\/strong> (Dark Horse)
\nISBN: 978-1-61655-694-5 (PB)<\/p>\n

It’s that time again and no, not even the end of the bleedin’ world will excuse not making suitable arrangements for your truly beloved. Don’t break Lockdown but use your imagination. There’s plenty you can still do to show your appreciation and undying devotion. While you’re thinking, though, here’s a great book you might like\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 <\/i><\/p>\n

Let’s face it kids, Love Hurts. This mesmerising modern parable – available digitally and in Olde Worlde paperback – demonstrates that maxim with stunning audacity and devilish charm as author Kelly Thompson (Storykiller, The Girl Who Would be King, Jem and the Holograms<\/strong>) and illustrator Meredith McClaren (Hinges<\/strong>) drag a young woman on a harsh yet educative road trip to learn a life lesson regarding ill-considered wishes and Faustian bargains\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

After young Emma<\/em> has her heart broken by her unforgettable \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Man with No Name\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she foolishly listens to an insistent stranger who promises to make the shattering pain go away forever. He’s as good as his word, too, but within nine days Emma realises that what she feels after he’s worked his magic is absolutely nothing at all, and that’s even worse than the agony of loss and betrayal which nearly ended her\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

The aggravating Mephistophelean advisor – she calls him \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bob<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d – is still popping in however, and promptly offers her a way to can reclaim the seven shards of sentiment\/soul she threw away. There will of course be a few repercussions: as much for her as those folks who have been enjoying the use of a little feeling heart ever since Emma so foolishly dispensed with it. They might not want to relinquish that additional loving feeling\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

As Emma doggedly travels across America, hunting down those mystically reassigned nuggets of passion, she discovers not only how low she’ll stoop to recover what’s hers, but also where and when all the moral boundaries she never thought she had can’t be bent, bartered or broken\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

A dark delight, Emma’s literal emotional journey takes her into deadly danger, joyous cul-de-sacs and life-changing confrontations with her past and future in a clever reinvigoration of one of literature’s oldest plots and probably mankind’s most potent and undying philosophical quandary\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Funny, sad, scary and supremely uplifting, Heart in a Box<\/strong> is a beguiling rollercoaster ride to delight modern lovers and every grown-up too mature to ever be lonely or dependent\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\n\u00c2\u00a9 2013, 1979 Semi-Finalist Inc. & Meredith McClaren. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Kelly Thompson & Meredith McClaren (Dark Horse) ISBN: 978-1-61655-694-5 (PB) It’s that time again and no, not even the end of the bleedin’ world will excuse not making suitable arrangements for your truly beloved. Don’t break Lockdown but use your imagination. There’s plenty you can still do to show your appreciation and undying devotion. … <\/p>\n

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