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jstilts 's review for:
The Greatest Thing
by Sarah Winifred Searle
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.
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.