A review by brendalovesbooks
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi

3.0

As with any graphic novel, I must comment on the artwork. After all, that is why I read them. Other people probably have different reasons for reading graphic novels, but for me it's the combination of getting to read a story while looking at art. So, if the art's not good, I don't care how interesting the story is, I'm not going to love the book. All that being said, I did not care for the artwork in Persepolis. I think I've mentioned a few times that I like the more realistic artwork. And I definitely like for it to be colorful. So the black and white cartoonish art didn't really bring out the love for me.

BUT, I can't imagine this graphic novel with the kind of artwork that I like. I'm not sure that it would have worked. The pictures seemed to match the story here. And the story was very interesting. I liked reading about this time period and this bit of history, which I really didn't know much about, told from the perspective of a young girl. Obviously the author didn't write it as a young girl. She's an adult, writing of her young girl memories, so it's not quite right to say it's from the perspective of a young girl. But still, it was very well written.

I would recommend this to graphic novel readers, and to those who are looking to get into reading graphic novels.