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Freiheit!: The White Rose Graphic Novel
by Andrea Grosso Ciponte
1.5
Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a free digital copy of this book for exchange for an honest review. All thoughts are my own.
A very short non-fiction graphic novel about the group known as The White Rose, an anti-Nazi group, who distributed leaflets of their beliefs around Germany and beyond. This is a very short history and flashes of the group's main members - specifically Sophie and Hans Scholl, Alexander Schmorell, and Christoph Probst.
I usually love a good non-fiction graphic novel, especially about a topic I really enjoy, but this one just didn't do it for me. It was very short, less than 100 pages, and did not cover much within those pages. I knew about this group from university and another book I read a few months ago, but if I didn't, I feel like I would have been very lost. There is not a lot of actual backstory or history given in this book, so anyone who may pick this up without any previous knowledge may be very confused. This is a very serious topic and it really didn't feel like it was taken seriously, more so just a quick telling of a famous group.
The art work wasn't bad, not my personal favourite style but it was done nicely. It did kind of fit the topic as it was mainly dark and dreary like the subject.
Overall, just kind of meh
Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a free digital copy of this book for exchange for an honest review. All thoughts are my own.
A very short non-fiction graphic novel about the group known as The White Rose, an anti-Nazi group, who distributed leaflets of their beliefs around Germany and beyond. This is a very short history and flashes of the group's main members - specifically Sophie and Hans Scholl, Alexander Schmorell, and Christoph Probst.
I usually love a good non-fiction graphic novel, especially about a topic I really enjoy, but this one just didn't do it for me. It was very short, less than 100 pages, and did not cover much within those pages. I knew about this group from university and another book I read a few months ago, but if I didn't, I feel like I would have been very lost. There is not a lot of actual backstory or history given in this book, so anyone who may pick this up without any previous knowledge may be very confused. This is a very serious topic and it really didn't feel like it was taken seriously, more so just a quick telling of a famous group.
The art work wasn't bad, not my personal favourite style but it was done nicely. It did kind of fit the topic as it was mainly dark and dreary like the subject.
Overall, just kind of meh