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mehsi's review against another edition
1.0
I received this book from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.
Welp, this sounded much more interesting, but I really had to drag my butt through the story. I just couldn't get into it at all. All I could see was a mom trying her best but failing at everything (and then getting grumpy at her husband when he has to stay away longer to EARN money, gee girl, you could have known he wouldn't be home for much when you married him....).
All this book was about was about a mom who can't keep a job for a long time for many reasons and then worries all the time about money, her kid, her kid, and more of her kid. She complains about her job to various people. I didn't really see her take an effort to find a new job during this story. Yes, I get that she just lost her job, but since it is so dire with their money, why didn't she immediately go for a new job? Or at least went and searched for one.
I felt sorry for how Melodie was treated at the dance school. :(
The ending also felt incomplete. Like there was meant to be more, but they ran out of place so they quit. I guess there will be a second volume someday, at least that is what I expect, and otherwise it would make the ending even worse.
The art is truthfully the only thing I really liked about this graphic novel. It was gorgeous, manga-styled, and I loved each and every part of it. From the character designs to the little details everywhere. Plus I loved seeing her illustrate Melodie's fantasies (and also see several references to anime/manga. Sailor Moon!).
But all in all, not really a fav and I won't be reading it further should there ever be a next book.
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/
Welp, this sounded much more interesting, but I really had to drag my butt through the story. I just couldn't get into it at all. All I could see was a mom trying her best but failing at everything (and then getting grumpy at her husband when he has to stay away longer to EARN money, gee girl, you could have known he wouldn't be home for much when you married him....).
All this book was about was about a mom who can't keep a job for a long time for many reasons and then worries all the time about money, her kid, her kid, and more of her kid. She complains about her job to various people. I didn't really see her take an effort to find a new job during this story. Yes, I get that she just lost her job, but since it is so dire with their money, why didn't she immediately go for a new job? Or at least went and searched for one.
I felt sorry for how Melodie was treated at the dance school. :(
The ending also felt incomplete. Like there was meant to be more, but they ran out of place so they quit. I guess there will be a second volume someday, at least that is what I expect, and otherwise it would make the ending even worse.
The art is truthfully the only thing I really liked about this graphic novel. It was gorgeous, manga-styled, and I loved each and every part of it. From the character designs to the little details everywhere. Plus I loved seeing her illustrate Melodie's fantasies (and also see several references to anime/manga. Sailor Moon!).
But all in all, not really a fav and I won't be reading it further should there ever be a next book.
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/
geekwayne's review against another edition
2.0
'Queen Street' written and drawn by Emmanuelle Chateauneuf is a semi-autobiographical graphic novel.
Aimee was a lawyer when she lived in the Philippines, but she left there to immigrate to Canada and get married. Now she is raising a busy young girl, and doesn't see her husband much. She lives in an apartment with an eclectic group of people who help her raise her daughter. She also tries to find work, but as an immigrant, her jobs tend to be in restaurants.
This had a lot of potential. The description sounded really interesting, but the book just doesn't deliver. I like a lot of what's going on, but it kind of peters out about halfway through, and it left me wanting something a lot better.
I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Diamonds Book Distributors and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
Aimee was a lawyer when she lived in the Philippines, but she left there to immigrate to Canada and get married. Now she is raising a busy young girl, and doesn't see her husband much. She lives in an apartment with an eclectic group of people who help her raise her daughter. She also tries to find work, but as an immigrant, her jobs tend to be in restaurants.
This had a lot of potential. The description sounded really interesting, but the book just doesn't deliver. I like a lot of what's going on, but it kind of peters out about halfway through, and it left me wanting something a lot better.
I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Diamonds Book Distributors and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
ljrinaldi's review against another edition
2.0
I'm not quite sure how to describe this book. According to the notes about it, it is supposed to be semi-autobiographical, which might explain why there is no real ending to it.
There are so many colorful characters introduced, the drunk old lady neighbor, the bitchy women at the ballet school, the friends that Melodie, her daughter, makes at ballet school. The Chinese restaurant downstairs. All of these characters and more are introduced, and then nothing....
It is almost as though the author just stopped half way through. There is so much going on, but then, nothing more is developed. I will revise my rating, if this is the first in a series, but there is no indication that it is.
It is probably a 2.5 star rating for an interesting premise.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.
There are so many colorful characters introduced, the drunk old lady neighbor, the bitchy women at the ballet school, the friends that Melodie, her daughter, makes at ballet school. The Chinese restaurant downstairs. All of these characters and more are introduced, and then nothing....
It is almost as though the author just stopped half way through. There is so much going on, but then, nothing more is developed. I will revise my rating, if this is the first in a series, but there is no indication that it is.
It is probably a 2.5 star rating for an interesting premise.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.
chukg's review against another edition
4.0
This book was nice and quiet, mostly about a semi-recent immigrant trying to live with little money in Quebec. It seemed to be set pretty recently and the main character has an imaginative and creative child and a husband whose work takes him away from the family for months at a time. I liked it all but the end has some much rougher pages, short one page or half page comics outside the main story and I found those ones almost hard to read.
brogan7's review against another edition
3.0
An unusual story because it's about a single mother and her daughter--the mother is Filipina--the girl has a rich fantasy world. But somewhere in the bittiness of it, I don't feel like it all hangs together. It's very manga (drawing style)--it's very emotional, but the change, it doesn't seem able to trace a change over time or to say this is the story.
There are a couple of full-page panels of Melodie (the daughter) in fantasy mode, they are the frames that made me stop and ohhh--that is what childhood is like and that has big meaning.
There are a couple of full-page panels of Melodie (the daughter) in fantasy mode, they are the frames that made me stop and ohhh--that is what childhood is like and that has big meaning.
haileymull's review against another edition
4.0
Queen Street is beautifully drawn, which is what first drew me to the novel. However, the novel is quite short leaving you wanting more, and not necessarily in a good way. Just as you begin to get to know the characters and get an idea of the message of the story it suddenly ends! If there were multiple novels waiting for me to read and continue the story, I would fly through them. The brief story left me wanting so much more, yet I still poured over what there is. The characters are charming, the relationships have the potential to be complex, and the story is intriguing. I do hope that there is more to come.
stayathomereader's review against another edition
2.0
great potential, but rushed and undeveloped. would make a better series than stand alone
librarianryan's review
2.0
This is going in the DNF Pile. Halfway through and I’m not interested. Amiee is an immigrant to Canada. She moved to marry the love of her life. She has a daughter, but can't keep a job. She wants to be a good mother, but with her husband away driving truck all the time, it’s hard. The art work is fine, but the story so typical, it boring. No real character development. Maybe something happens towards the end, I just don’t care to read anymore to find out.
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