We get glimpses, to varying degrees, of a series of figures who are plotting … something mysterious and probably sinister, but I really have no idea what. This is shaping up to be a story about stories. It is very, very clear that this is “Volume 1,” because it introduces lots of questions with very few answers. Most people denounce him as a fraud, but some believe his thin past is covering the fact that he’s the real Tommy Taylor, come into the real world as the final novel suggests happens.
Things get complicated when a young woman brings up evidence that Wilson Taylor was not, in fact, Tom’s father, and indeed Tom’s past is all rather vague. It’s not the most fulfilling existence, but it pays the bills. Between Tom’s childhood and the present, his father mysteriously disappeared, and Tom makes a living on the convention circuit as the “real” Tommy Taylor. His father, Wilson Taylor, wrote a series of books rivalling Harry Potter in popularity, starring a young boy wizard named Tommy Taylor, modeled on Tom as a child.
The protagonist of this series is a man named Tom Taylor. Well, thanks to the need for a graphic novel for Bingo (less than a month and a half folks! Time to panic read!) I finally decided to make the time for it. Just one of those things where there was never really a good time for it. I finally got around to getting the damn thing four or five years ago, and it has been taunting me on my bookshelf ever since.
I’ve been a Mike Carey fanboy for a good long time, and have been meaning to read The Unwritten for over a decade now.
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