It moves smoothly and I absolutely love the artwork, especially Leiz's design for Olivia and how she's presented in pretty much every panel. Read Full Review

The second issue of The Last Book You’ll Ever Read continues the mystery behind Olivia Kade’s controversial and best selling novel Satyr. The violence and pandemonium Satyr is causing is escalating as the book finds it’s way into the hands of more people. As a result Olivia is confronted with protests as she makes her away across the country on her book tour. People are not taking too kindly to her writing in Satyr. She describes how we are all suppressing and internalizing our primal nature — a constant battle between our fierce nature and our urbane day-day to existence as Olivia describes it.

To guard against the onslaught of threats and physical violence cast her way, Olivia hires a premiere private security firm to provide her protection. We are further introduced to her main bodyguard Connor Wilson as Olivia does a book reading at one of the bookstore stops. Chaos ensues and we see for the first time Connor needing to protect Olivia. Afterwards, they make their way back to their hotel where Olivia playfully asks Connor to join her for a drink. Hesitantly he accepts the offer leading to tense but flirtatious exchanges. It’s here that Connor questions Olivia about her motives and her behavior, almost taking the place of us the readers.

The following night after another bookstore visit and more violence directed towards Olivia, they visit a local bar where she is hoping to blend in and relax. Connor and Olivia continue their conversation about her actions and his concern that her reckless behavior will get her hurt. Eventually a group of locals recognize her and make their way to her table to start trouble. Immediately Connor beats them to a pulp and escorts Olivia outside. Excited about how he defended her and both surely high on adrenaline, some steamy stuff takes places bringing our issue to a climactic ending.

I continue to be drawn by the mystery of Olivia. There’s almost a Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct feel to her. If you are looking for big action sequences or fast paced storytelling, this is not where you’ll find it. I say this not as a negative or criticism of the comic. It’s more to inform that this is closer to an erotic thriller with horror undertones. The pacing is slow but it’s deliberate. There are comics that I can confidently recommend to everyone in general but this is more for those that appreciate the genre I described. The last thing I’ll touch on is Leila Leiz art which is just beautiful and seductive. Some pages are….😮‍💨 haha☺️ more