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A review by amym84
Winter Town by Stephen Emond
5.0
I was intrigued by this book because of the mix with the novel and graphic novel aspects. Plus, I thought that storyline sounded good. Two people who have been friends since young childhood find themselves growing up and questioning their feelings for one another, all while having to face the difficult decisions of what to do with their lives. I really always like a love story like this.
Evan and Lucy have been friends since childhood. They used to spend all their time together. Until about maybe six years ago when Lucy's parents divorced and she wen to live with her mother. Now she only comes home for two weeks at the Christmas holiday. Usually they just pick up where they left off, but this last year Lucy has changed, not only her hair cut / color, but Evan knows there's definitely something wrong. But how does he find out.
This story is told in both Evan and Lucy's point of view with each of them taking half of the book to tell their side of things. Where Evan's side ends Lucy's side picks up the story. I like when we get mulitple perspectives, but I'll admit sometimes it can get confusing. By having each character get 1/2 half of the book, I thought this writing device was successful.
Interspersed throughout the book are Stephen Emond's own comic drawings. I think they just enhanced the story that much more. There would be two pages setting up each chapter and then in the chapters themselves we would get drawings about the most important aspects happening. At the end of each chapter we were given a little comic taking place in teh fictitous world that Evan and Lucy created. The adventure in this comic does loosely mimic what is happening in the story proper. It really shows the way a graphic novel and describe in less pages, with drawings and some conversation bubbles, what a novels takes more time to describe with words. I like the two different medians as a form of storytelling.
I thought that book was a cute, quick read showing us a glimpse of the character's lives at a pivitol moment where they will make the decision of what path to take on their future. This is definitely something I could pick up again (maybe around Christmas) and enjoy reading about the characters and their journey. Until Then!
Evan and Lucy have been friends since childhood. They used to spend all their time together. Until about maybe six years ago when Lucy's parents divorced and she wen to live with her mother. Now she only comes home for two weeks at the Christmas holiday. Usually they just pick up where they left off, but this last year Lucy has changed, not only her hair cut / color, but Evan knows there's definitely something wrong. But how does he find out.
This story is told in both Evan and Lucy's point of view with each of them taking half of the book to tell their side of things. Where Evan's side ends Lucy's side picks up the story. I like when we get mulitple perspectives, but I'll admit sometimes it can get confusing. By having each character get 1/2 half of the book, I thought this writing device was successful.
Interspersed throughout the book are Stephen Emond's own comic drawings. I think they just enhanced the story that much more. There would be two pages setting up each chapter and then in the chapters themselves we would get drawings about the most important aspects happening. At the end of each chapter we were given a little comic taking place in teh fictitous world that Evan and Lucy created. The adventure in this comic does loosely mimic what is happening in the story proper. It really shows the way a graphic novel and describe in less pages, with drawings and some conversation bubbles, what a novels takes more time to describe with words. I like the two different medians as a form of storytelling.
I thought that book was a cute, quick read showing us a glimpse of the character's lives at a pivitol moment where they will make the decision of what path to take on their future. This is definitely something I could pick up again (maybe around Christmas) and enjoy reading about the characters and their journey. Until Then!