Dark Agents: Violet and the Trial of Trauma
by Janina Scarlet, PhD; ill. Vince Alvendia (Instant Help Books, 2020)
While Alvendia’s art is straightforward and endearing, capturing teen personalities (vulnerabilities) against sparse, Hades-hued backdrops, the therapy angle is not so much ‘blended seamlessly throughout the story’ (quoth the blurb) as wrapped around it like a strangler fig, voiding all fictional integrity.