Reviews

March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

sweaters_raindrops's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

driley1994's review against another edition

dark informative inspiring medium-paced

3.0

melissax's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective

5.0

breakfastgrey's review against another edition

4.0

Perhaps it's because I read the entire series back to back, but I feel that some of the cracks started to show a little more clearly in this final volume. It is still an incredible, moving piece just like the other two, but I did have some concerns with the series that have been kind of swept aside until now: an enormous rotating cast who becomes increasingly hard to keep track of, a scattershot approach to events that feels more like snapshots at times than full realizations, and the book's inherent genre concerns. It's a graphic memoir and considered non-fiction, but one of the big rules with non-fiction is that you don't invent dialogue. That's a tricky task with graphic fiction told primarily through dialogue. I don't know what the proper balance is there, but it sets a bit of a worrisome precedent.

theseventhl's review against another edition

5.0

These books are absolutely necessary reading for all Americans. Even if you do not read graphic novels, you owe yourself a read of MARCH.

mary00's review against another edition

4.0

Powerful ending to the trilogy. John Lewis and his colleagues were truly courageous.
I highly recommend this set of graphic memoirs!

daemonwrangler's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense

5.0

mbejjani's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

4.0

laila4343's review against another edition

5.0

Stunning, moving, enlightening. This graphic history series should be required reading in high schools and colleges all over the country. I learned so much about the unrelenting danger and vicious hatred civil rights leaders and everyday activists faced every single day to secure voting rights in 1963 and 1964. They literally put their bodies and lives on the line to deliver justice to America. I’m reminded that this happened not all that long ago... within my parents’ lifetimes. John Lewis is a true American hero and I’m so grateful to this team for collaborating to bring this essential history to life on the page.

megan_ash's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75