That was adorable. And the art was so beautiful, wow. I want a Wendell all for my own. I just wanted to hug Marjorie the whole time. Definitely recommend.

I'll be the first to admit I'm a novice when it comes to graphic novels, but the cute cover appealed to me, so I snagged this one anyway. I love Fables, but other than that often feel like the stories told in graphic novels are too thin and disjointed. That's also the case in Sheets.

It's a bittersweet story of a young girl - Marjorie - who has lost her mother and has to try to keep the family business going while she also goes to school and takes care of her brother and father. A skeezy fella by the name of Saubertuck wants to buy out the property because of the prime location. And by "buy out" I mean he's offering them room and board if they come work for him, and by "wants to" I mean he tries to sabotage the business so they lose customers and have no other choice. So yeah, pretty much your standard unsympathetic bad guy.

Parallel to this is the story of Wendell the ghost, who escapes ghost town and ends up in Marjorie's laundry business, accidentally wreaking havoc and playing right into the hands of the sinister Mr Saubertuck.

The story is however resolved to everyone's (but the bad guy's) satisfaction, and Marjorie's family finally begins to heal after the loss they have experienced.

What elevates this graphic novel is the graphic aspect. The artwork is really beautiful. Delicate and intricate with a colour palette that invokes melancholy and mystery and something vaguely nostalgic. I really enjoyed the drawings and am thoroughly impressed with the level of detail and the sensitivity with which they are created. A shame the story didn't quite live up to it.

A beautiful graphic novel. Appropriate for kids, teens, or even adults, Sheets shares the story of a lonely, grieving girl with the weight of the world (or at least her family) on her shoulders. Mourning the death of her mother, Marjorie must keep her family's laundromat a float. Things are looking bleak until her path crossing with Wendell, a ghost who is missing the world of the living. Together, they may just find friendship and hope for the future.

Sheets by Brenna Thummler is a book I requested from NetGalley and the review is voluntary.
I found the first part of the book a bit slow but it did pick up when there was more interaction with the ghost. I felt for the girl and the ghost but I wasn't too invested in them. I found the flirting scene near the end out of place. It was an okay read.
I really loved the art work! Very nice! Wonderful colors and could almost tell the story without words!

I really liked the story between Marjorie & Wendell, that they were able to see the good in one another and work together. They didn’t have to be afraid of one another, as they both were just trying to find their place in the world. The fact that sheets could be anything now...I guess we’ll find out.

Brenna Thummler does it again with her illustrations! Well done!

I couldn't access this book at all via my android tablet. Not even by the Aldiko app. I'm giving it three stars since I think this is NG's fault in granting accessibility, but I want to make clear that I wasn't able to even open the file, so I haven't read it.

I’m not crying you’re crying! This graphic novel packed so much emotion. We follow a young girl who’s mother has just died, running the family laundromat, taking care of her family, and trying to survive middle school. The art was simple but contained so much feeling. Check this one out!

I received an e-arc from Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. I'm grateful I had the chance to read it in advance.

I love Brenna Thummler's adaption of Anne of Green Gables and when I saw she was publishing another comic and got really excited.

The artwork is amazing, I love the colour schemes and the ghosts were so cute, and each had their own personality.

In the beginning of the graphic novel, Marjorie is in the library looking at a bookshelf and you can see a copy of Anne of Green Gables on the shelves. I really loved that reference to Thummler's other work.

I did have a couple of issues with the plot. Marjorie is a well-developed character and it was great to get to know her. However, the problem with Mr. Saubertuck was a little bit childish in my opinion. The threat of losing her business could have been more realistic.

Furthermore, I didn't feel like it was necessary to add a love interest to the plot. It felt kind of random and not founded on much.

I did like the ghosts and their storyline although that takes you completely away from reality.

All in all, I enjoyed this graphic novel but the plot was not as interesting as Anne of Green Gables. I gave it 4 stars. It's a good read but do not expect too much from the plot.

A touching graphic novel about death and the way that loss affects those left behind. The death of her mother has left Marjorie's in charge of the family laundromat and her father depressed and absent. Marjorie struggles to keep the laundromat in business when a young ghost, Wendell, arrives while trying to find his own place in the world after death. Despite a few pitfalls that Wendell and Marjorie experience at first, the story ends with love and friendship.
This was a tragic but adorable graphic novel, starting off as two separate stories that later merge together as one. Marjorie's story started out slowly, while Wendell's immediately drew me in. Thankfully, when the two eventually combined, Marjorie's half of the story finally picked the pace.

Sheets was written and illustrated by the talented Brenna Thummler, and according to the intro at the beginning it was done so as a way of coping with all the anxiety and everything else in her life. I hope it helped her, and hopefully it’ll help you too.
You can kind of get a good idea of the core concept of Sheets just by looking at the cover. It’s a world where ghosts are real, but in the silly Halloween sense. They have to embody sheets in order to move around and exist. It’s an interesting and fun idea.
I really enjoyed reading Sheets. The main characters, Marjorie (living human) and Wendell (ghost) are sweet, understandable, and easy to empathize with. It’s impossible not to feel for these two very different yet eerily similar characters, and over the course of the novel I found myself growing very attached to them.
I think that was why I found myself cringing at times. That sounds bad, but hear me out. Other than the ghosts in this story, everything about Marjorie’s struggles are so very human. She’s trying to take care of her family, her mother’s legacy, and goodness knows what else. All while up against a selfish man who wants to take that all away from them. So the moments when we see him acting against her are quite literally painful – as in they’re almost too hard to bear, because we don’t want to see him succeed against Marjorie and her family.
Wendell’s story is sad, but he’s such a loving and kind ghost, even if he’s a little clumsy and has trouble understanding boundaries. But then again, while he may be dead there’s no doubt that he’s still a kid. And what kid understands boundaries all that well? Now imagine a kid that can go through walls and well… you can see how it’d become an issue.
Marjorie has so much weight on her soldiers, for all the reasons I already mentioned above. While it’s tempting to look away and pretend that something like this could never happen in real life, the truth of the matter is that it does in fact happen. Kids have to step up and be the adults in their family all the time. And it’s heartbreaking. I love that Thummler didn’t shy away from this truth, and instead chose to show us Marjorie’s fight to keep what was hers.
I can’t wait to see what else Thummler comes out with. Clearly she has a talent for both writing and drawing, so I can see her going someplace with this.

Very sweet. I love the look of it, especially when it's outside with no dialogue. It was really very sad for too long, I almost lost interest. But as I wipe away the tears from my eyes, it all paid off. The only things I'd change: not have a guy pursuing her and the swimming lessons bit near the end felt awkward and largely unnecessary-ish. It's very beautiful. But not much to go with there.

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Sheets is an interesting, very well done graphic novel. The characters are sad yet loveable. I really enjoyed Marj and her guts to keep going, and I appreciated Wendell trying to fit in. The story goes from tragic to uplifting and accepting. Love it.

Almost 2 completely separate stories until halfway through the book. One, a very boring story about a middle school girl, Marj, who has lost her mother and has to run her family's laundry service in addition to school. The other. a much more compelling story of a recently deceased boy who hasn't made any friends in the ghost town he was sent to and comes back to the town he's from. Eventually these stories overlap when a person in town tries to sabotage the laundry business.

This is a really strange mishmash of stories. They don't really go together all at all. At least 50 pages of the book could have been edited out. Marj's story moves at a glacial pace. That being said, I loved Wendell the ghost and his made up stories. I really dug the pastel color palette and the art was filled with background detail.

3.5/5 stars

Sheets is the story of Marjorie, a middle schooler in the late 1990s. Marjorie has a hard life right now: her mom recently-ish passed away, her dad is depressed, and Marjorie is left caring for her kindergartener brother and their family's laundromat. To add to the weight on her shoulders, a man in her town is trying to discredit the family's laundromat in order to put pressure on Marjorie to "sell" the building to him for his spa and yoga studio. He goes to quite some evil lengths to get his way, but a ghost by the name of Wendell shows up and attempts to help Marjorie. Will Wendell be able to help Marjorie save the laundromat? Will Marjorie ever get to act her age again or will she have to grow up much too quickly?

Sheets was a decent graphic novel. I'm not usually a fan of the medium, but I didn't hate this one. The colors of the illustrations were indicative of night vs. day and present vs. Ghost Town vs. flashbacks. They helped add to the tone and helped foster my sympathy for Marjorie, who is, truly, in a horrible position.

While Marjorie is of middle-school age, I would not recommend Sheets to tweens, nor probably teens. I suppose the best audience would be adults, but it probably won't have a wide appeal, unless the reader is looking for a book on grief, friendship, or overcoming hardship.

Like the sheets that make up the ghosts who inhabits the world crafted by Brenna Thummler, this book will really put you through an (emotional) wringer. However, it makes the conclusion all the more sweeter as a teenage girl and a young ghost, both who have long felt left out in their respective realms, join together in a most unusual but also a most heartwarming friendship.

This keeps getting excellent reviews, but it simply did not cut it for me. Maybe I was over excited for it and it let me down? I don't know. Give it a try. Many seem to love it.

Gentle and dreamlike. I loved the conceit of ghosts in sheets! It was a little difficult to follow the action in parts, but that could be due to the slice of life nature of the story. Overall a good middle grade graphic read. Would definitely recommend to my tween library patrons.

I received a digital ARC from the publisher via NetGalley.

Thank you so much to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this in advance!

This book was so good! I loved the art and the story so very much. Marjorie is a girl that feels invisible She just feels as if she will never belong in this world.. She spends most of her time running her family's failing laundromat as her Father is just too depressed to do anything except lay in bed overcome with depression from the loss of Marjorie's Mother. She also loves to lose herself in books.

There is someone in Marjorie's life who happens to also be a ghost named Wendell. Suddenly Marjorie isn't all alone and she has someone to help her save her laundromat.

This is a beautiful story of grief, loss, loneliness and strength.. It shows that nothing is impossible with hard work. I loved Wendell and .Marjorie and I am sure you will as well. This is a must read!

This is a sweet and relatable story of a 13 year old trying to make the best of a difficult situation. I loved the illustrations and felt that they really fit the dreamlike quality of the story, and Wendell was such a great character! I would have loved to have more of his story as it felt like there was a lot more to his backstory than we got! I would definitely recommend this to kids age 9 and up.

I enjoyed this graphic novel even though it was sad I really liked Wendell and I could really relate to the character Majorie it had funny and uplifting parts and I loved how the story was tied together at the end . The story had a couple of good twists and turns that I wasn’t expecting. Thanks netgally