Such a great book! I enjoyed reading this one so much! I highly recommend this book. Side note: the cover!!!!

sadly, before i could download this title, netgalley took it off their catalog. that means i can’t review this one. HOWEVER, i will be checking in with my library to see if i can get a copy and review it that way

his was a case of I’m not the target audience and it’s not for me. I overall enjoyed it and loved the science aspect of it but the main girls acted younger than they should have and for me, the pacing was off.

However, I would recommend it to people to read if they think the story sounds interesting.

This graphic novel was a fun read that I will happily use to encourage my students, especially the girls, to follow their passion in STEM. The characters were interesting and so was the plot with fantastic graphics.

I thought this was such a great graphic novel. Once I got started it was hard to put down. I loved the characters and plot of the story. I love the idea of having a graphic novel that was geared towards young female adults and talked about STEM in a positive way. To encourage them to pursue their dreams in the science and math fields. This book is about a group of girls who go to college and each of them have something different that makes them smart and they are invited to join the Curie Society which is like a top secret spy ring that is full of women who use their passion and abilities to help. It is not just their smarts that they have to have tested, but can all these girls with different personalities be able to work together as group to save the day.

I got this on Netgalley in exchange for an honest review!

I really enjoyed this! It gave me strong Totally Spies, Big Hero 6, Goldie Vance vibes and I LOVE it!!!
Girls being empowered, smart af, kickass and cute??? Queer / Lesbian rep features pretty prominently???? Sign me the fuck up 😍 Love the kickass females in this, and that all the men are supporting and not THAT important. We already have men talking over women in actual science so nice to see a different reality here!

Although I LOVE that is has so much actual science and see how all three characters are passionate about their fields, I wish it didn't stop the story so. Like, I wish it was more intermixed, and that the whole middle part didn't feel like a training montage, but that we got more "normal" / story moments in-between (if that makes any sense). I hope this will improve with sequels tho, and I know this is just me being nitpicky!

I also wish we got to learn more about the individual characters than just a super brief 1-3 facts about them because so far we only really know more in detail the kind of science they do and are interested in, and how that affects them as characters. Hope we explore this more in the others because I really want to learn more!!!

I hope there will be a sequel or sequels to this, and I can't wait to see how the story progresses!!!

I think this would be a great read for middle school and early high school kids! The Curie Society follows three women starting as freshman at an elite college. All three of them excel in different areas: math, computer science, physical science. Soon, the three are invited as recruits to the secret Curie Society, which funds covert scientific studies across the world to the betterment of humanity. But the three soon discover that all is not as it seems in the Curie Society and someone is targeting and stealing data and research from their experiences. Someone who has inside knowledge of all of the Society's operations and highest leaders. Will they be able to stop them? The pacing was a little off at times but the characters all had distinct personalities and problem solving abilities. Plus, the art was really well done. Hope there are a few in this series.

This was an enjoyable read. It was fun learning about some scientists and how this book looks at many non-fiction elements for inspiration.

Follow Taj, Simone, and Maya as they find themselves being recruited by The Curie Society. They will build a friendship and bond as a team as they face challenges that could affect not just them but all of mankind. This is a great book for any lover of STEM. The females here are going to explore real world issues of today.

There are also villains verses heroes. There are also ethic and moral dilemmas. Which you may find interesting. Do you do things for a love of them and to better humanity or do you do things for the love of money?

Do you care about environmental changes? Do global warming interest you? Many young girls will find a love for STEM and science with this book. While some of it was over my head, I grasped the whole of the book. If I had something like this when I was younger I might have been more interested in STEM and the sciences, which is what I think the authors were going for when they wrote this, to inspire you girls and women to find a passion here and pursue it as a career.

This was given as a review copy in exchange for my honest opinion NetGalley

I like the idea of this book better than I like it's reality. I like the idea of high achieving women mentoring the next generation, changing the world together. Making it a secret society allows for more conflict with shadowy villains and secret helicopter trips. Each character has a primary flaw that plays into the conflict between the team. Predictable but exciting enough for a single read.

Love love loved this book! It was so refreshing to read a book about young girls interested in stem! A must read.

I really liked this graphic novel, I found it really easy to read and enjoyable. The art style is very pretty and the colors are very pleasant to the eye.

The three girl protagonists are so sweet and I loved Maya and her relationship with Chelsea more than anything. The idea of a secret society made by woman for the woman progress is so cool and it shows the struggles woman face in a society and in the science space.

I received an ARC of The Curie Society thanks to the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Review:
I had high hopes for this story because the artwork looked great and the idea was interesting. I love the idea of popularizing STEM, regardless of gender but this story focuses on the potential of females, who are less represented in the fields, and I’m all for it.

The characters were interesting, but I felt they were very flat at the same time. Maybe I just wanted more of them. The downside of graphic novels is that they are short and rely heavily on the artwork since text is minimal. While the art was great, I didn’t feel their personalities.

This book was definitely the set up for a series, which I’m excited about. I think more development will occur with plot and characters, which will improve the story a lot.

Overall, I enjoyed the story and loved the idea. I’m definitely going to be letting my daughter read this in a few years (she’s 8 now and the science/math things might be complicated at this point) because I think she’ll love it.

What I liked:

Girls in science, what's not to like? I appreciated the way an interdisciplinary focus on problem-solving was focused on as well, and also let's be honest, comics are just a lot of fun. This is something I'd pick up for a middle-grade girl if I had one in my life.

What I didn't like:

The pacing could have been a lot better. Everything happened way too fast, and the consequence of that was we didn't really get enough time with any of the characters, even though they all had their own private stuff going on.

Overall:

A good book for the target age group, and definitely worth checking out.

Not nearly as engaging as I expected but it did have a lot of potential. The personalities of each character are strong, and the plot is strong. There’s just too much for a single volume and that leaves it falling flat for me

*Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with an early copy of this book for review, all opinions are my own*

Being a comic is a very quick story to read, in about an hour you can read everything.
I really liked the art style, for me, it is kind of old school, or at least it reminded me of older comics because of the drawing.
The story itself is very interesting, it brings a very cool context of college and characters that are very different from each other, which I liked because it brought different views and opinions to the story.
The plot of the story is a little bit Jurassic Park vibe in the beginning but which evolves to a villain who wants to do the right thing in a certain way but in an illegal manner.
I found the comic very good and I recommend if you want to read something with scientific girls who work together to save the world
Ps: I found the comic very complete with some extra parts at the end that related to the story.

This had a good premise, but the execution was lacking. The tropes that were used were not well executed (i.e. pushy parents, selfish overachiever learning to work with others, etc.) and overall took away from the actual story. I really wanted to like this, but it was mediocre at best. I was more interested in the information at the end of the book regarding the technology and real people than the actual story.

Thank you to The MIT Press via NetGalley for providing me with the ARC in exchange for an honest review

Nossa, eu fiquei encantado demais por essa história e tudo que ela tem por trás. Um quadrinho publicado pela editora do Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts sobre um trio de garotas (ao melhor estilo Três Espiãs Demais), cada uma com sua especialidade, sendo recrutadas por uma sociedade secreta fundada pela Marie Curie com o intuito de resolver enigmas, criar tecnologias e até (porque não?) salvar o mundo combatendo alguns vilões. YOU WIN ME OVER!

Simone é uma garota prodígio, indo para a faculdade com 15 anos e sendo uma entusiasta sobre biologia e ciências da vida. Maya é uma gênia da matemática e da física, resolvendo problemas na cabeça em segundos e almeja o perfeccionismo. Taj, com seu jeito criativo e rebelde, é uma mestre em tecnologia e programação. É um trio incrível, e o mais interessante é que por ter 3 grandes mentes pensantes na sala, nem sempre são mil maravilhas. Há conflitos de interesses e tudo é mostrado. O dinamismo é bem palpável.

A história, apesar de deixar margem para explorar muita coisa em volumes futuros (que imagino que irão ocorrer pensando no final desse quadrinho), é bem rasa para uma introdução ao mundo. Tem um começo forte, com o convite das meninas à sociedade, mas na hora das missões tudo pareceu meio avulso e sem muita conexão (e por isso tirei 1 estrela).

Fiquei bem curioso pelo futuro desse trio. Espero que venha aí!

The Curie Society is the graphic novel I wish I had when I was little.

I’m a Chemistry major, so I got very excited when I saw a book celebrating Marie Curie and females in STEM. The story does cover some advanced concepts due to the setting of the story being college. However, the writers do a good job at making it accessible. I suspect the vocabulary will still be over some people’s heads, but they anticipated that and included a glossary. A large chunk of the story and the plot is dedicated to the works and accomplishments of Marie Curie, but it does give some subtle nods to other famous women in STEM like Ada Lovelace and Emmy Noether.

The premise of the story is that Marie Curie started a secret society of sorts to get more women into the STEM fields. They become spies of sorts and work to protect the progression of science. We follow three main characters, Taj, Maya, and Simone as they navigate the pitfalls and high points of college. I enjoyed the realistic nature of the scenes in the book. Maya’s experience with her first time washing clothes solo (and the horror when she messes it up) felt very relatable and humorous. In terms of audience, I recommend this to readers who are in middle school or older who have an interest in pursuing the STEM field in their future. It is equally well suited to both boys and girls (despite some of the obvious feminist leanings). The art in this book is fantastic. However, I do want to note that from the cover alone it isn’t obvious the story is set in college. They look very young on the cover, so it was a shock to learn their actual age at the beginning of the story.

Thank you to MIT Press and NetGalley for allowing me to read and review an advanced copy of this book.

College is a time for new experiences...and secretly taking down evil scientists who are using their mighty brainpower to accomplish dastardly deeds. Become a new recruit in The Curie Society--founded by Marie Curie-- alongside Simone, Taj, and Maya as they use their astronomical intelligence to solve problems and fight evil using grit, determination, and no mere amount of groundbreaking technology.

First and foremost, I want to address how extremely impressed and excited I was when I discovered this book's making included assistance from an array of STEM professionals with real experience who helped create this story with its many scientific and technological aspects. Scratch that: I'm very blown away as that is honestly one of the most amazing things I have encountered while reviewing on Netgalley. In addition, I also love that MIT has a publishing press associated with the university. I'm not sure this book could get any cooler, and I give an extremely sincere thanks to MIT Press for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book. If you keep publishing stories like this, I promise I will be here to read them.

On to the story itself: this is exactly the kind of book that the world needs to see more of. Not only do we have diversity among all our female characters, but we also have women supporting women and being the best in their STEM field. The number of scientific topics that were explained or briefly mentioned in the course of this story was mind-boggling and it's sure to spark interest in several different kinds of readers as what is explained is as diverse as our character set. I know I found my section in the book where de-extinction was discussed (although I am not looking to start a Jurassic Park situation). If a reader gets confused at all while reading, there is a very helpful glossary in the back of the graphic novel explaining the broad range of topics covered during the storyline.

Now onto critiques: I feel like this book couldn't decide what it wanted its age range to be. Everything in the story is very innocent; even the cussing is blocked out by special characters. In addition, one of our only potential romances (which was very subtle) seemed as though there were some insinuations, but I feel pretty confident they would go over juvenile reader's heads. At these points in the book, I was a bit confused as to what age range we were aiming for in this story; it felt like in those moments the book was trying to aim its way into YA but didn't quite make the mark (not that YA readers would not also enjoy reading this story) especially as the writing appeared more juvenile in nature to me. In addition, characterization could use some improvement even though I adored Simone, wished I could kick butt like Taj, and sympathized with Maya some of their characteristics fell a little flat and could be improved upon. Try to break away from the stereotypes that say what they should be so we can discover who these ladies are!

Overall, I give this book a 4.5 and recommend it for older juvenile readers and up. I have a feeling that those who read this story will not only enjoy it--they'll learn a lot!

Hands down this is my new favorite graphic novel/comic. Being a biologist this story brought me so much joy and many things to reflect upon. This story is for everyone