I found this an engaging and easy to read introduction to the life of Hamilton. However, it's really heavy on text for a graphic novel!

This book was not my favorite. I usually love all things Revolutionary War-related, but this graphic novel tried to pack in way too much information and I found myself overwhelmed by the sheer amount of content.

To see history presented in the graphic novel format was new for me but was very enjoyable. I felt the artist presented the material in a fun and informative manner and I learned a lot about Hamilton while enjoying the narrative.

Even though this is a graphic novel there is a lot of information in this book. The story offers a good overview of the life of Alexander Hamilton, the good and the bad. Unlike some other graphic novels there is a lot of writing and it will sometimes overwhelm the page. The artwork was good and really fit the story but is not the emphasis. Anyone with an interest in American History and Hamilton will enjoy this book. This graphic novel is suitable for young adults or adults.

I blame Lin-Manuel Miranda for the deluge of books about Alexander Hamilton that we're seeing now. But, hey, at least people care about history again! This was a nice graphic history of Hamilton and the revolution and his life after. You already know the story, you can't avoid it.

I wish stuff like this existed when I was younger and being tested on history in school. It's still helpful as an adult, but where have you been all my life?!! The art and writing were great, but overall I find history a bit boring and this was no exception for me. If you like history and comics definitely check it out.

A retelling of the life of Alexander Hamilton, from his childhood in the Caribbean to his infamous death in a duel, told in the form of a graphic novel. I am a little bit obsessed with Hamilton the musical, so when I saw this I had to give it a try. While I enjoyed it overall, I felt that the graphic novel did not do enough with the form; this could easily have been an illustrated history book instead, and the format did not bring much, in my opinion. Still, the art was nicely drawn and the text did enough to draw from contemporary sources to make it worth while. Overall I enjoyed it but would have like to have seen something a little more... revolutionary!

When we first heard about this book, my 10 year old Hamilton fanatic and I were incredibly excited. However, this book is somewhat misleading in that it really is not a graphic novel biography. It is an illustrated history book. When the term graphic novel is used, one envisions lots of conversations and action, two things this book sorely lacked.

My daughter and I both trudged through the book, but it was a struggle for both of us. I think it is an excellent resource for a child in 7th grade and up who might be doing research on Hamilton and the birth of the United States, but it was definitely not what we were expecting.

A must read for the Hamilton fans out there! Well written and enticing artwork.

'Alexander Hamilton: The Graphic History of an American Founding Father' by Jonathan Hennessey with art by Justin Greenwood, takes an historical figure that is currently fashionable and tells his story in a decent way.

Thanks to the musical "Hamilton," Alexander Hamilton's life has become a trendy property. You can read pretty extensive biography that the musical uses as source material, or you can try this graphic novel, which provides more detail than the musical does.

Starting with his humble beginnings and moving on through the Revolutionary War and his role in shaping the government, this graphic novel covers a lot of ground in less than 200 pages. The writing is pretty dense and includes quotes from the players. The art gives the story color and movement and feeling. Perhaps if the graphic novel suffers anything, it's that events are sometimes overwrought. Perhaps they were at the times, but the book has the feel of one emotional battle after another. Perhaps that is just a result of the medium used to tell the story.

I liked the approach this graphic novel took by giving weight to the story and providing enough context of events surrounding things. I'm glad I got a chance to read this.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Ten Speed Press and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

This is book allowed me to understand the life of Alexander Hamilton and why he is such a famous person. This would also be a great help to students with the colorful pictures and easy description and simple words.

Do you have one toe into the Hamilton hype? Have you learned the songs but haven't yet been lucky enough to score the Broadway tickets? This awesome graphic novel filled in the missing pieces for me and was delivered so neat and tidy between this awesome graphic novels pages!

The perfect gift for any Hamilton lover! The story of the forgotten founding father in a new medium!

The images are gorgeous, but the writing, while very authentic-sounding and period accurate, is much more dense than the typical audience for graphic novels at our library would enjoy. Most suitable for history lovers who are already well familiary with Hamilton's life but who still enjoy reading about it.

We are living in a fascinating moment where people are looking to our founding fathers in a way that is unprecedented because of the popularity of the Musical Hamilton. Hamilton, the musical, may not be suitable for all ages, but I think Hennessey's book is definitely suitable for all ages. If you're a history teacher looking for a way to really make American History come alive, I would highly recommend this book. Does the book have faults, sure. But I think as a whole it's a great introduction.

Of all the fiction works that have been bandwagoning the success of the musical show "Hamilton" I'm afraid this belongs to the ones that failed to engage my interest even if the idea of a comic was at least original.

The scritpt is confused, with constant flashbacks and flashforwards that make it hard for the reader to follow a consistant storyline. It sounds too encyclopedic for a novel and not enough accurate and historically correct for a history amateur, the art is definitely unlikely to appeal to youngsters, with little to no effort to find a likeness of Hamilton close to his surviving portraits and the overuse of text to deliver information that could and should have been made into art will probably disappoint a reader of any age looking for a novel in comic form, so I wondered what kind of audience was being addressed. As for the story itself, e.g. the unbalanced ratio between the number of pages dedicated to Hamilton's 1-year affair with Maria Reynolds as opposed to the 4-5 sketches dedicated to his 25 years relationship and marriage with Eliza do not speak of a good insight in Hamilton the man and his family and what they meant for him, during his lifetime and afterwards when they fought for the acknowledgment of his achievements. In this respect, with all its historical inaccuracies, the musical captured the general spirit of Hamilton's life curve much better.

The worse fault of this work is that it failed to engage my attention and I grew bored of it. When you have a comic novel that sounds like a not entirely accurate historical essay instead of a novel, a not particularly appealing art, a general approach to the man and his family that disregards surviving records in his own writing as well as other related evidence, a convoluted script, what is left to like except the subject unless you come to this work without any expectarions and previous knowledge?

I regret being so negative about a work for which I was given an ARC copy through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review, but as much as I am grateful for the opportunity, I also have to be honest and warn others of the potential disappointment this work represents.

Alexander Hamilton was born in the West Indies in the 1700s. His mother died when he was young and his father abandoned him. He wished for a war to start, so he could make a name for himself in the world. Years after arriving in America he got his wish. He fought alongside George Washington to make America an independent country. Following that, he became a lawyer and polititian.

This story tells about the early America, under the influence of Hamilton. He is just a part of the narrative. It tells about things happening around his life, but not just about him.

The graphics are really nice in this book. Each frame shows a different place, from South America to New York. They are great depictions of the time period.

There wasn’t enough dialogue in this book for me. The only speech parts were taken from real quotes. Graphic novels can be great teaching tools for young readers, but there was so much narrative and not enough story, so I think kids would get bored. Just because it’s a historical story, doesn’t mean it has to be boring and just state the facts. It could tell the story in an exciting way to entertain as well as teach, but I don’t think this story did that. It felt like more of an essay with pictures than a graphic novel.

I had high hopes for this graphic novel. Alexander Hamilton was a heavily forgotten figure in history before Lin Manuel-Miranda got his hands on him. Now people of all ages know his name, know what he overcame, know he re-wrote the...okay, I'll stop.

And his story IS interesting, from low birth to tragic end, with loads of war and scandal in between. And I'm terribly uninformed about my own country's history. Why? Because history is boring, and dry. It can be VERY interesting and informative, but if you give it to me in dusty tome form, I'm going to yawn and go back to reading fantasy and dystopia.

This is a comic book. This is going to be FANTASTIC.

Enter the GIANT WALLS O'TEXT.

Seriously, this is a terrible read simply because of the giant walls of text. Isn't the point of a comic that the story can be told without those?

There is a lot of tiny pieces of trivia buried in those textual anvils, I will say. But slogging through in order to get there is just no bueno. Not to mention, if Alexander Hamilton is a forgotten founding father, why should we be expected to process hundreds of names of lesser known politicians, war heroes, and random people?

I think this comic has a place, in history classrooms around the states. But it's not a "for fun" read, which is what I picked it up for.

While I love both history books and graphic novels, I also want a purpose when putting the two together. How will the images help the text - and how will the text fill in the blanks between the images? With this book, I didn't feel thatd the images helped the text in any way; the story sort of rambles, goes off on tangents, focuses on odd points, and doesn't explain leading comments. To be honest, I was frustrated and the 'cartoony' nature of the drawings didn't impress upon me the feeling of the era.

The book is fairly chronological but tends to get side tracked easily. For example, it will start with Hamilton's birth in the Caribbean Island area, then goes into far history about why the Caribbean was settled by Europe, who settled it, how cotton became important, then cotton required slaves, slaves made wealthy landowners, wealthy landowners put the money back into England and not the Colonies......and after all that, we're told that Hamilton was born from a poor family and so none of that mattered to him. It was odd and circuitous and perhaps far too much needed to explain Hamilton. I always appreciate perspective but didn't need a brief history lesson of wealthy landowners and slavery in the Caribbean to understand Hamilton or that he was born there.

And unfortunately, most of the book sort of meanders. Don't get me wrong - this feels meticulously researched. There is a LOT of great information in here but it's not in story format. It's like an illustrated, static, textbook. I can't help but feel this would have been better with images and then lots of text rather than purporting a graphic novel - there is no novel in here. Hamilton did this, the colonies did this, England sent xx, Benedict Arnold was a general, Washington was frustrated. It's all tell and no show.

Also frustrating is that we are given facts that aren't followed up. E.g., concerning a wealthy traitor's wife who tells about sensitive information to 'the wrong ears' - yet we never find out if that even meant anything. I was both starved for information and inundated by it.

In all, this is not terrible and the illustrations are serviceable. But it's very static, overwritten, and lacking in any good justification for creating a graphic novelization of Alexander Hamilton. Reviewed from an advance reader copy provided by the publisher.