Reviews - The Greatest Thing

438 reviews for:

The Greatest Thing

Sarah Winifred Searle

3.99 AVERAGE

lemonjade's review

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

authoramandafernandes's review

5.0

emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jstilts's review

3.75

challenging emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A combination of lovely and sad, this Graphic Novel charts a high school student's second year where she starts friendless, depressed and struggling with mental health issues that she barely realises she is suffering from - seeing them as a background part of her developing teen life.

Things swiftly improve as she makes some genuinely great new friends and starts to create a Zine with them (with issues fully reproduced in the book!) - but in this somewhat autobiographical tale life is not so straightforward. There's even one point the character admits would be a perfect happy ending, but the story has a ways to go.

The ending left me a touch unsatisfied in that it left me wanting more, but that's life: the story never really ends.

rianlion's review

4.75

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Content Warnings

westhebookworm's review

5.0

I don't think I ever read a book as relatable as this one I read it in one setting during an all-nighter graphic novel read a thon I held for myself I've never been great with friends I have a good close friend but like Winnie they do not go to my school the friend I have at school are the kids I sit next to in class and in some classes I talk to nobody and if I do become friend with the people I sit next to it only for however long the class lasts anyway this book was relatable and heart-warming and has a great message and is all in all a very enjoyable read

mollz235's review

5.0

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Great pace start to finish. The characters are flawed, relatable, and lovable. The ending makes me want to read it again--there's always more to see in the panels!

Content Warnings

bonnieebrown's review

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

shmem007's review

3.0

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

comet64's review against another edition

3.75

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

blakereads_'s review

5.0

emotional hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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