Fence: Striking Distance
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4.4 • 17 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
The boys of Kings Row bout with drama, rivalry, and romance in this original YA novel by The New York Times bestselling author Sarah Rees Brennan — inspired by the award-nominated comic series by C.S. Pacat and Johanna The Mad. Sixteen-year-old Nicholas Cox is the illegitimate son of a retired fencing champion who dreams of getting the proper training he could never afford. After earning a place on the elite Kings Row fencing team, Nicholas must prove himself to his rival, Seiji Katayma, and navigate the clashes, friendships, and relationships between his teammates on the road to state championships — where Nicholas might finally have the chance to spar with his golden-boy half-brother. Coach Williams decides to take advantage of the boys' morale after a recent victory and assigns them a course of team building exercises to further deepen their bonds. It takes a shoplifting scandal, a couple of moonlit forest strolls, several hilariously bad dates, and a whole lot of introspection for the team to realize they are stronger together than they could ever be apart. The first installment of this enticing original YA novel series by Sarah Rees Brennan, rich with casual diversity and queer self-discovery, explores never-before-seen drama inspired by C.S. Pacat's critically acclaimed Fence comic series and boasts original cover and interior art by Johanna The Mad. Text and Illustration copyright: © 2020 BOOM! Studios Fence(TM) and © 2020 C.S. Pacat
Customer Reviews
Great but....
This is a great book!!! I hope to see this as a comic soon. However, there’s one thing that felt different: In the Fence comics, the main character is Nicholas with Seiji being secondary, right? When I read this book, it looks like it’s more focused on Aidan and Harvard instead of Nicholas and Seiji. They had more chapters than the those two. I expected Nicholas to have most chapters about his POV with Seiji being second to most. I hope in the next book that it will mainly focus on them. Again, this is a great book!!!