The Demon of River Heights (Nancy Drew: Girl Detective Graphic Novels #1) by Stefan Petrucha

Read: June 15, 2013

read in a half hour

pages: 96

Book blurb:

Everyone's favorite girl detective makes her graphic novel debut!

An all-new series of full-color Nancy Drew graphic novels, with all-new comics stories based on the series by Carolyn Keene, starts right here! Join Nancy, along with Bess and George, as they search for missing student filmmakers and discover the deadly secret behind the local urban legend known as "The Demon of River Heights."

Now I'm really glad this was not the first book in the Nancy Drew graphic novels that I started with. In all honesty if it had been I might not have continued and read as many as I have. This was just so incredibly cheesy!! Nancy coming face to face with a grizzly bear....George telling her to FIGHT BACK!!!  A grizzly?? Really? She punches the thing in the face!! Yeah right! So unbelievable even for a graphic novel in a fictitious little world. Come on.

All that said, the story was only so so. And the blast at the end that sends Nancy shooting from the mine completely UNHARMED....even more far fetched than the run in with the bear. Another dud, but I'll keep reading hoping to find less like this!!