This book told a story I hadn't really known before. If you have read or are aware of the Bronte sisters work you would find this graphic novel interesting. The origins of the classics such as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are revealed and we learn of the relationships amongst the sisters themselves. This book sheds light on what it was like to be not just a female during this time, but a female writer. The sisters are underestimated by all the men around them but are determined to share their work with others. I do wish we spent some more time on the sisters and built up the characters a bit more, but overall a great read I will suggest purchasing for our library.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this review copy.

I've heard about the Bronte sisters but didn't know much about their personal lives. So this book was a good way to learn about them. I enjoyed this read but nothing extraordinary.

I loved this graphic novel, because the drawings perfectly reflected the dark and bare character of the story, despite the fact that it was about three of the greatest Victorian writers.

Questa graphic novel mi é piaciuta tantissimo, perché i disegni riuscivano a rispecchiare perfettamente il carattere cupo e scarno della storia, nonostante fosse quella di tre delle maggiori scrittrici vittoriane.

I received a complimentary digital copy of this book in exchange for a honest review.

If you haven’t heard of the Brontë sisters, you are certainly living under a rock. Each of them is a literary icon. At the same time, their personal lives were shrouded in mystery. This is especially true of Emily Brontë who was known to be excessively reticent. This graphic novel aims to shed light on three of the best classical novelists that literature lovers have known.

Brontë tells us of how Charlotte, Emily and Anne were initiated into writing, how they chose male pseudonyms to keep their identities secret, and how they struggled in their personal life as well as in their writing career. The story has its base in reality, though the dialogues are obviously not verbatim. Through the simple narration, the author reveals the distinct personalities of the three sisters, their brother Branwell, and their tragic lives. This isn’t an inspiring book, more of an insightful one. The characteristics of the three authors comes out very clearly, and it is hard not to wonder what might have happened had they been blessed with more plentiful and longer lives.

The illustrations are very simple and stark, just like the lives of the Brontë girls. They don’t distract from the story, nor do they add much to it. I guess I was expecting more from the illustrations, but I do understand the decision to keep it simple. It makes sense, but it still fills me with a twinge of regret.

Recommended to all Brontë fans who want a quick look at what made the three talented authors so special.

Thank you, NetGalley and Lerner Publishing Group, for the Advanced Review Copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

The adaptation was good. The whole graphic novel was well-written. The only thing that I did not like was the art style.

Very cursory, surface-level look at the Bronte sisters and how they came to write their novels. The book is perhaps overly focused on Branwell, the brother, who had substance abuse problems, probably because there's nothing much else interesting to write about! You'd learn more from reading their Wikipedia page but the basic info is here - how they had to adopt male pen names to be published, their early deaths, Charlotte's obsession with an older man. Whether their relationship with Branwell was as strained as this, I don't know, but you get an idea of the Bronte's lives in Haworth at least. Probably one for younger readers as it's basically informative and easy to read but wasn't for me.

Let me start with—I haven’t read any of the Brontë sisters’ works, but I know them as literary icons who published major books under male pseudonyms. This graphic novel introduces the characteristics of the three Brontë sisters, the situation they faced in the literary world where men were considered to be established authors and writings by women was not a commonplace occurrence during that time. The story magnifies the period in the Brontë family when the three sisters somehow decide to publish their books; it also puts forth light on the relationship with their ailing and old father and a troubling brother who burdened the family with his unruly behaviour. The novel definitely has encouraged me to pick Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte that has been on my shelf picking up dust. If you are a Brontë fan, this graphic novel will definitely enlighten you and probably make you reread your favourite classics.

Thank you # Netgalley and Lerner Publishing Group for providing me with a temporary digital ARC for an honest review.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The book as you can imagine is about the Bronte's sisters and how they became these great mysterious Bell's brothers, what made them decide to take these pen names and write the best masterpieces of the English literature. Manuela Santoni with her own interesting style tried to portray each sister's special and unique personality with their self- destructive brother Branwell and in my opinion her work ended up pretty amazing.

It was kind of fresh to read and to discover a new version of the Bronte family's relationship and how their home's atmospher had such an impact on the sisters and their writing for the author has chose to illustrate the most important moment of their lives to describe without an amount of words and just lets her art talks for itself.

It was my first book by Manuela Santoni and I discovered that she has wrote one about Jane Austen that I will be happy to read.

While we know why the Bronte sisters had to write under assumed male names, I'm not sure if we know the details of how they did so. Hard to believe that women weren't supposed to know how to write that well, but there it is.

This is an interesting overview, set as a graphic novel, of the thinking that went into selling their books, and making money to live off of.

This also brought into the story their low-life brother, who I was unaware of, but then I am not a scholar on the Brontes.

I enjoyed it, but was sad when I looked at how young they died.



<em>Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.</em>

*2.5/5 stars. I don't read many graphic novels, but this one was so interesting to me because it was about the history of the Brontë sisters. As someone who knows quite a bit about their lives already, I think it was easy for me to follow this graphic novel because of my background knowledge. However, with such sparse text actually used, people unfamiliar with the story might be confused with the shifting settings and timelines. It was beautifully designed, and it spanned a nice overview of their life.

Brontë presents an illustrated retelling of the Brontë family's extraordinary life. The graphic novel follows the Brontës through their literary success and personal troubles and triumphs.

This was beautifully illustrated and I really enjoyed the way the author weaved the narrative of the lives of the Brontës. As a big fan I have read a few biographies on the lives of Charlotte, Anne, and Emily, but I felt I got to know a bit more about Branwell and their father through this work. I thought the book brought to life their struggles to get the recognition they deserved and the tragedies the siblings faced.

I would recommend this one for people looking for a wonderfully illustrated introduction to the lives of the writers!

Thank you to the publisher and to NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.