Sean Beaudoin has written a novel Fade to Blue that will appeal to followers of comic-book type novels. The novel opens with a comic-book style as Sophie presents her essays about her father's disappearance. The novel even gives the reader a part of a comic book The Adventures of Destrooktor.bot which figures prominently in the story.

The author manages to include a must-have super jock into the story.

But the book's major strength is the numerous and zany events as Sophie, her brother and their friends try to figure out what happened to Sophie's father.

The name calling and humor amid a serious situation will play well with the comic-book crowd and other people into this type of literature.

Even the numbering of the chapters is a little odd. The chapters go from zero to twenty and then start down again, and each chapter adds a little subheading, I suppose for comedy. For example chapter two (going up) has this subheading: Bite me, for I am full of creamy nougat. Readers will enjoy the way the plot reaches the denouement.