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Graphic Novel Review - The Hockey Saint by Howard Shapiro

The Hockey Saint

By Howard Shapiro



Pub Date 14 Oct 2014
ISBN 9780991255016
publisher: Animal Media Group LLC

The Hockey Saint is a story of friendship between aspiring hockey player and student Tom Leonard and world famous hockey champion Jeremiah Jacobson as the unlikely pairing explores that there is more to behind the life of a world famous sports star and the true meaning of friendship.

Being an occasional fan of Ice Hockey I was excited to see a graphic novel based in the hockey world and was eager to start this, I did unfortunately have to push through finishing it as I lost interest as the story progressed. 

I found that the story was just to easy and neat. I felt a lot of it had a nice idea and had hope but instead of character development and a plot, things just fitted into place to easy such as when a character needed to be investigated it is just our luck that the eighty year old grandmother has a degree in genealogy to find this out. It wrote a little like a cartoon where the villain was just trying to dig up dirt on the angel that is Jeremiah to find out his only faults are chain smoking and drinking, which in this world is exactly what they were after. 

If the dialog was improved and a little more time was spent on this it could be a pretty good story but unfortunately it just wasn't for me.

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