I've never read the Outlander series, though I know they have quite a following. Maybe the core audience for The Exile, fans of the source material, would like it better than I did.The Exile is a graphic novel retelling the plot of Outlander from a modified point of view. The main effect of this seems to be that the action is always going on somewhere else. Scenes seem barely connected to one another, and the motivations of characters are not adequately explained.
As with many graphic novels based on other media, and many graphic novels by authors new to the format, the reading experience feels rushed and slight. I read The Exile in one sitting, and when I finished felt like I had barely read at all. I'm not sure if it covers the whole of the first novel, but the disjointed sce
nes and incomplete characterization gave more than a little of the impression that this was more of a cash-in than anything else. Though I can't vouch for how well it accompanies the original novel, as a standalone I can't recommend it.
