The Promised Neverland, Vol. 1

by Kaiu Shirai

Book Overview

The children of the Grace Field House orphanage must escape a macabre fate before it's too late.

Life at Grace Field House is good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and exams they have to take are tough, their loving caretaker provides them with delicious food and plenty of playtime. But perhaps not everything is as it seems...

Emma, Norman and Ray are the brightest kids at the Grace Field House orphanage. And...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421597128
• ISBN13: 9781421597126
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Viz Media
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

This is my new favorite obsession!

The children at Grace Field House orphanage have everything they need, good food, clean clothes and a mother who seems to love them. They live a good life in a friendly environment, but one day, two of brightest children at the orphanage, Emma and Norman, discover a dark truth about the outside world they had only known from story books. From the moment I picked this book up, the story drew me in, practically every page kept me on the edge of my seat wanting more. I try to balance reviews with pros and cons, but with this volume I cannot think of a noteworthy con. One thing I'd like to note is, while this is obviously a manga and stylized as such, there is quite a bit of Western influence, particularly of the characters in their bone structure. It feels a bit odd at first but once the novelty of the blending of the arts wore off, I found it matched the opaquely covered dark tone of the story. By the end, I was kicking myself for not having the next volume on hand. This series got bumped to the top of my next-to-buy list! I can't wait to learn more about the children's world as they do.