Surprisingly awesome
To be honest, I didn't plan on reading Morning Glories. I only did so because a friend of mine loaned me the first three volumes of the series and recommended I try them, and since I have crazy huge amounts of free time right now I decided why the hell not, and gave this book a read.
Holy crap, it wasn't what I'd expected. I figured it'd be something like gossip-girl-meets-private-school in comic form; while I can't in all fairness say that I was wrong, due to the fact that I've never watched any Gossip Girl, it's much more worthwhile and entertaining than I predicted.
The only reason I didn't give this five stars is because of it's cover art (which almost put me off the series in the first place). I found some other aspects of the story grating (such as the personalities of some of the characters) but they were necessary and very workable elements that I understand have a place in the story.
The plot is fantastically cryptic, but not frustratingly so. There's a lot going on that's not explained (like, at all) and almost none of it fits together. However, I noticed that in the introductory slides the students were made to watch there was a slide thrown in of a robed man sacrificing a goat next to a crying (similarly dressed) child (and yes, sacrificing; he slit it's throat), later on a man named Abraham is brought in to the story and does some deus ex machina, there's a robed cult of some sort in the basement of the school around some manner of ritual circle, and the spanish inquisition is featured, so whatever's happening looks strangely religious.
