The Unwritten Vol. One was my club's first foray into the graphic novel world. We thought it would be interesting to read one, since it has become the new trend in reading. Everyone in the club enjoyed it. This graphic novel is unique because it uses literature as a major part of it's mythology. Some of the novels referenced in this volume are the Harry Potter Series, Frankenstein, and the works of Rudyard Kipling. However, it should be mentioned that this is only the beginning of the series and a person who has read more of them told me that this was not the strongest of the series and it only gets better from here. The biggest strength for this volume is the literary allusions and the questions about the nature of reality. The weakness of this book was that Carey chose to put the section with Kipling at the very end and it kind of reads like an appendix. It might have been better if it had been dispersed throughout the novel.