Foiled/Jane Yolen

Foiled by Jane Yolen; young adult graphic novel; 160 pages

This got great reviews, and it's by Jane Yolen, so I had high hopes for this book. So, I'm not sure what went wrong. The art was a little more simplistic than what I normally like, but I could work around that. The story was well-written, but felt very unoriginal, and just plain unbelievable in places (even for a fantasy novel). One scene, in particular, was straight out of Twilight, and, since I'm pretty sure Jane Yolen would own Stephenie Meyer in a fight, I was very confused as to how that got there. This is clearly meant to be the first volume in a series, so maybe the story will improve as it goes along, but I don't know that I'll be reading any more.