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This book wasn't for me. I just couldn't seem to get into the story and quickly lost interest and wasn't able to finish.
'Super Sisters' by Christophe Cazenove with illustration by William Maury is a graphic novel about sisters Wendy and Maureen from another graphic novel called The Sisters.
Wendy and Maureen in this book imagine they are superheroes. They get on each other's nerves even as superheroes, but also have unique strengths that each needs. They fight criminals in a science fiction world, but still go to school. They find their greatest threat in their own clones.
There isn't a lot of context to get in to this. For that, I assume you need to read the previous stories. The younger sibling has a habit of mangling every phrase and parroting it back. This gets annoying pretty quickly. The art is fine, but there is some pin up style art along the way that makes me wonder who this title is supposed to appeal to.
I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Papercutz and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
My daughter thought this book was just okay. She wanted desperately to like it, as it had a great premise, but had a hard time getting into it. This is a graphic novel, that discusses the relationship between two sisters that had super powers. There was very little understanding of the life they live and the world they live in. I felt this book could have been better, had they gone into more detail about their history.
I received an advanced reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.
This graphic novel is about two sisters who have super powers. The eldest sister seems to always be belittling and putting the younger sister down, yet the youngest sister is the one who usually saves the day in the end - meaning to or not.
This is an ok book but could have been better such as an introduction as to where the live and the world around them.
I give the art 5 starts completely. As for the story it sis not keep me pulled in. It didn’t feel unique enough to making me want more.
Super Sisters by Chistophe Cazenove, 92 pages. GRAPHIC NOVEL
Papercutz, 2020. $15.
Language: G (0 swears, 0 “f”); Mature Content: PG; Violence: PG
BUYING ADVISORY: MS - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Wendy and Maureen save the world with their powers, but that doesn’t mean they don’t get on each other’s nerves. When Maureen develops a new power, she uses it to get her way and annoy Wendy. Luckily, this new power might also be just the thing to defeat the latest villain.
We first meet Wendy and Maureen in a few shorts that come before the main episode. I enjoyed that opportunity to understand their characters before jumping into their adventure. Cazenove cleverly makes this super-sister-duo relatable for readers with siblings and uses their sister dynamic to the advantage of the heroines. The mature content is for revealing outfits on some of the female characters, and the violence rating is for hero and villain battles (without gore).
Reviewer: Carolina Herdegen
This was adorable. Two young girls, sisters, have super powers and come across many situations where they need to use their power to save themselves, others, and the universe in general. I’m not familiar with the series so I don’t know much about them but I didn’t feel lost or anything. These are a bunch of short comics about their different adventures. I felt the author did a good job of capturing the antics between sisters (as an older sister of a brat, I know a lot about this topic). I think my nieces will enjoy this book and can’t wait to tell them that their mom and I acted just like that, minus the superpowers of course.
ARC provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
ARC Copy...I bit out of the loop since I;m aware of sisters yet not knowing of the series + characters. New people to series will be confused but long time fans of the series might be abit more open to intergalactic battles and characters.
Have you ever wandered if superhero sisters would get in the same scraps as regular sisters? This graphic novel answers the question and it is yes. This book is full of cute short stories with bright illustrations showing the struggle having a sister can be even as a superhero. A fun quick read.
I read a copy of Super Sisters by Christophe Cazenove through Netgalley and I was a bit underwhelmed. I was excited that Super Sisters was another Middle Grade Graphic Novel with a kick ass story but instead I got short comics. I did not get to find out where the Super Sisters came from and how they got their powers. It would of been good that there was actually one enemy instead. The only saving grace was the artwork it was amazing just a shame there was no real story so I will have to give it 2 stars
Reasonable, but no better, this collection of short adventures for two young super-powered sisters, is most peculiar in how little we're allowed to know about their world and what's going on before we're dumped into things, but gets the time to build into something more understandable by the time we're finished and a longer, more dramatic piece concerning their clones comes along. The older, darker-haired sister is forever talking in asides about how lazy, ineffective or otherwise defective her younger, blonder sibling is, while her shtick is to always get her words in a twist – and to be the actual one to save the day. It's all OK for the target audience, but why we're dumped into the middle of an alien battle with talk of alien planets, sensei-type characters and attributes we've never heard of before, I will never know. Can't we be allowed to care for these girls first, or at least know who the heck they are?!