This graphic novel from the excellent Faith Erin Hicks has everything you want from an adventure story: lots of high-octane action, embroiled conflict, political intrigue, and a compelling cast of diverse characters. Despite the tensions between the Dao conquerers currently occupying the City and the city natives, an unlikely friendship develops between Kaidu, a Dao soldier-in-training and Rat, an intellectually and physically agile city inhabitant. Together they begin to uncover the City's vast secrets!