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3.97 AVERAGE
3.97 AVERAGE
Sisters, the follow-up to Telgemeier's Smile, is a harder graphic novel to pin down than its predecessor. Because Smile focused on a painful and difficult but ultimately cosmetic and non-life-threatening medical issue, it felt like a warm blanket. Smile evoked those sick days where you stayed home from school and watched cartoons all day. Sisters, by contrast, focuses on how members of a family get on each other's nerves, how living in close quarters to one another drives even people who love each other to distraction. Sisters is therefore a slightly darker, less nostalgia-tinged work than the first book. It is still a fine graphic novel, but one that I do not see myself turning to for comfort.
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I love this book, Raina Telgemeier is one my favorite graphic novels authors, her memoirs are so interesting, I have a similar relationship with my sister as her and Amara do and it's nice to read about someone else perspective in a similar state
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
slow-paced
I liked this graphic novel but not as much as I liked Smile. Could relate to many of Raina's feelings about her younger sister, especially since I shared a room with my younger sister too. Love her writing & illustrating style
I flew through this and then my eight-year-old daughter saw me reading it and took over. I never knew we could read a graphic novel together, but it was a blast. She gives it four stars. I'm thinking 3.5.
Great follow up to 'Smile." Telgemeier perfectly captures sibling relationships and complicated family dynamics. A winning addition to the graphic novel collection in my children's section. I would argue that the book could be shelved in either YA or children's graphic novel collections if your library has them both. Raina's age in the story is 14 but I would say that the lack of romantic entanglements and the fairly light story would actually make is an easier sell for a tween than for an actual teen.
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This hit home for our kids- they're very much like the two in the book. A fantastic family story from Telgemeier.
I liked this okay, but the story didn't seem to flow as smoothly as some of Raine Telgemeier's other works like Smile and Drama. There were a lot of details that I really wanted to see expanded, honestly. The obvious thing is the parents' marriage issues, but I also wanted to know more about Raina and Amara's relationship with their cousins since I related a lot to those scenes. That said, I loved the early flashback scenes with Raina wanting a sister and being disappointed that her new sister was just a baby, haha! Definitely relatable. All in all, this was a nice story about a pair of sisters on a road trip, I just wish there was a bit more to it.