This one really captured my attention when I heard that it was a representation of dissociative identity disorder, and how that affects the life of the main character as well as those around her. Here we follow Elle who is the new kid in school after having been moved from her old school (initially for reasons unknown) and her joining a group of interesting and diverse new friends. There is banter, there are different friend-dynamics, there is a light-mystery plot element, and there's even a bit of fantastical style description of her multiple-personalities which I quite liked.

I thought the subjects were cleverly handled here, and the storyline and characters are compelling. I would have liked more of the story in this first Volume, and I definitely wanted the next chapter of the tale when I got to the end, so I will be keenly looking forward to Volume 2.

The art work is also beautiful. I really love the style of this one, it is clean and 'pretty' throughout, but without ever being sickly sweet or overly cartoonish. I think the colouring also works really well with the tone here, it is soft and gentle without ever being insipid or bland.

Overall I would definitely recommend this one, and I will happily pick up more from this author.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Le Lombard/Europe Comics for the e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

4 beautiful stars

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

Elle(s) is a middle-grade graphic novel about the pressures of fitting in and handling your emotions in middle school. Although it's tagged as "fantasy" and "YA," it's really neither of those things. The story revolves around Elle, who just transferred to a new middle school. She meets a few new friends, deals with mean girls, and strict teachers. She also has to deal with emotions in her head, depicted as Elle(s) with different hair colors. .

One highlight of the book is the artwork. I felt like I was watching a grown-up Inside Out or Disney/Pixar movie. The art felt 3-dimensional, like it was computer-generated. I recommend this graphic novel - if for no other reason - than for the art alone. It's a lot better than the art in most other middle-grade graphic novels. I also enjoyed the story. But if you're looking for a standalone, look elsewhere. It ends on a cliffhanger, so I assume there will be a volume 2, volume 3, etc. Overall, Elle(s) is a colorful story of a girl struggling and learning how to deal with his emotions in a healthy way. If you know a middle-schooler who enjoys graphic novels, this would be a perfect read for her!

I really enjoyed the art and the portrayal of the characters. I get the impression that Elle has DID (dissociative identity disorder) which is commonly portrayed incorrectly or in a negative light. I like that this is a creative representation that doesn’t make a villain out of the person with DID. It’s a good story so far, and I’m interested where it will go.

This was amazing! A beautiful, intriguing cute story, can't wait to see its continuation.

First of all, this is one of the prettiest graphic novels I have ever read. I just absolutely loved the art style.
But also, I loved the story overall. Elle is starting at a new school, making new friends, navigating the social and school life while dealing with the stressors that come with all that. Even putting the other subplots aside, that alone would have been interesting enough. But then other layers come in and it builds up into a good light mystery on top of everything else. It definitely ends abruptly with a cliffhanger, so watch out because you're going to want to read the rest!

Elle's new friends are all awesome, getting a beautiful found family feeling there.
I really liked the representation on dissociative identity disorder. To be clear, I have no personal experience with it and I don't know if the author does, so I can't comment on how well or accurately it was portrayed, but from my limited perspective, it was still respectfully and beautifully done.

This was a great first step to what seems like will be a great, interesting and beautiful story.

I will most definitely be reading the next one, and when/if the physical book comes out in English, I will be buying that one too, so I can have and share the beautiful art.

Thank you to Netgalley and Le Lombard/Europe Comics for the eARC of this title in exchange for an honest review.

One girl, 5 other personalities... Elle is starting over at a new school and with her is 5 other personalities that she doesn’t know she has. Her friends are finding that she starts acting strange and soon Elle and her new friends realize that theres more than one Elle! This was a beautifully illustrated comic, the artwork is just stunning! This is the start of a fun mystery story and I can’t wait to see where the rest of this story goes!

*Thanks Netgalley and Europe Comics for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

I’d like to thank NetGalley and the publisher for providing an e-arc in exchange for an honest review
This is a rather short graphic novel, but the plot is interesting and I’ll certainly be checking out the next volume.
Elle (or should I say Elles?) and her friends are all nice characters and I look forward to seeing how they’ll develop along the rest of the series.
However, the real star is the artwork, because not only is the style great but the colors are vibrant and simply gorgeous.

I loved everything about this graphic novel except that it was so short! I need more! It's full of beautiful art and a wonderful story. It features a girl with bipolar disorder. It does a great job showing her different moods. The art even matched her mood swings. This one of the best graphic novels I've read in a long time.

I really liked this comic, the colours were beautiful and the characters seemed really sweet. I'm curious to see how people with bipolar and dissociative identity disorder will react to this story because it seemed to me that it wasn't the best representation, but I could be wrong.
I'm eager to see what's next for Elle and her friends, but I'll probably read it in French since it's a French comic :)

thank you to NetGalley and the author for an ARC of this graphic novel in exchange for an honest review.
Elle is a student at a new school and it doesn't look hard for her to find a new group of friends but quickly the multiple personalities inside Elle appear as she gets stressed and the other students start finding her behaviour confusing. Her group of friends though stay beside her no matter what.

I loved the illustrations, the vibrant colours but I think that someways the story lost a bit of plot as it jumped, leaving some things unsaid. I think that the second volume will be more explanatory of Elle's personalities and might give more answers to what I did not like as much in this first volume.

It was such a refreshing concept! I liked the idea of having Elle’s five personalities appearing when she least expected them and then see the impact her behavior had on those around her. This is not just the common teenager confronting bullying or other teenagers within a high school group, this the next Level where a teenager with a personality disorder must confront the society. Even the character of the shrink is very well contoured, and he evaluates Elle’s disorder as being a bipolar disorder linked to adolescence and it appears when the main character is confronted to a stressful situation.
I liked the fact that each of these personalities inhabiting Elle’s brain have their own world and colors assigned to them. The symbolism is very interesting and for sure I will continue reading the next numbers.

I was super disappointed by it. I had an inkling that it was going to have some sort of a theme of DID (Dissociative identity disorder) from the cover, but the authors went about it in such a disrespectful manner. DID is caused by severe trauma in childhood, making the person dissociate from the teality by creating an alter - a different person to take on that trauma. This is not something that should be romantisised or made fun of, which this book does. If the authors did even a little bit of research, they would know that alters’ appearances can differ massively from the host’s appearance, so just changing the alters hair and attitude does exactly portray this well, tbh.

Even the art style - it is more suited to a different story. I feel like the authors were going for a more Lorena Alvarez vibes - colourful positive stories with a dark twist, but in this occasion they have massively missed the mark. No wonder people still don’t take menta health seriously, especialy when it is depicted in such ways like this.

Besides the issues that I have, the story itself didn’t really flow. It is as if there were pages missing. Characters kept jumping from topic to topic with no rea context. And in such a short amount of time so much happened, that I despised all of the characters.

I do not recommend this graphic novel and wish the authors’ best of luck finding their voice in a different matter.

Rating: 4 stars!

Awww!!! What a wonderful, cute, intriguing graphic novel! I love how this novel explores Dissociative identity disorder. Elle is a teenager who has been dealing with multiple personalities since she was a little girl and because of that, she has had issues adapting to new schools especially when she can't control when her other selves come to life!

I can't wait for the rest of this series to come out!

Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with a digital arc of this book in exchange for an honest review.

3.5/5

The best part of this book is the stunning art work, the way the different moods /personalities are portrayed and very much identifiable friends & side characters. The colors &lines are very clean and the frames are so easy to follow and read.

The let down is that this short vol 1 introduces a lot of subplots but doesn't resolve any. It has promises to get better in next volumes and I will be looking forward to them.

Kudos to introducing some heavy topics in the teen category but not making them feel forced at all.

I really enjoyed this, alot. I hated having to read the very last page- NOT KNOWING WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT. The cliffhanger is really good, and I am VERY excited for the second book to come out. There were a few things that made me mad, which is what brought my rating from a five to a 4.5. I was confused when it came to the hair. I often got confused on whether or not they saw her hair changing, Or if she was just imagining it. In which, I did get my answer. Another thing is, I found everything speeding by alittle too quickly. I know, this is a kids book, but I want to say in an honest way; the plot speed WAY to quick. I finished this book within 40 minutes: In one sitting. Not saying that is bad, I am just saying. I DO love the book. It is a very good plot, and it has an entertaining storyline. Can't wait for the second one to come out, and I definetly will reccomend to a friend.

**Thank you to Netgalley and Le Lombard/Europe Comics for the eARC of this title in exchange for an honest review. This in no way affected my rating**

Elle(s) is about a new student named Elle who experiences mood swings when she's under stress. Her friends try to help her to figure out her background in hopes it will help her gain control over her moods.

To begin with, the artwork by Aveline Stokart is GORGEOUS! It could easily be a TV show. I would love to see her work moving. It's beautiful. She also used color (as directed by the script) to help the reader tell each of Elle's "moods" apart. The idea to change the hair color was helpful for that eventually, but it wasn't explicitly said to be happening in her head until halfway through the volume. So at first, it may seem like she's physically changing when she changes moods, but it's really Elle's mental image of herself changing. However, the art is beautiful and easily the best part of the volume.

The story was hard to follow at times. There's an adoption subplot, there's a grief subplot, there's a subplot about her old school, etc. I would've maybe focused on one of these and really fleshed it out instead of trying to do ALL of them. It's a very short graphic novel at 90 pages, which makes that a LOT of information to try to get through while also dealing with the main plot of mental illness. It seems a bit disjointed at times.

My other main issue is that the friend group is too big. I'm sure as the volumes continue, they'll be further fleshed out, but the only ones who have any real plot relevance are Otis and Maëlys. Farid kind of felt like he was there to be the token brown, gay character and then there's Linotte who is "spacey" and that is her ONLY character trait. She takes up way too much time in the narrative being checked out. I don't really understand why she's included.

Overall, the volume was just too short to really establish the series well. I'm intrigued enough to find out what happens next, but I would need the next volume to be significantly more focused in it's scope and better paced. The phenomenal art work is entertaining on it's own, but narratively, I had some major issues.

3.5/5 stars

I wasn’t quite sure I’d enjoy this as much as I did, but it was incredibly compelling by the end I was ready for volume 2 to be in my hands. No to mention the art is beyond gorgeous. I requested this on a whim and was not disappointed

Oh I loved this so much! Not only was the art style INCREDIBLE the story was amazing and left me wanting more! I love how they decided to portray Elle's different moods and how each style reflected how she was feeling, I think it's good for these stories to be told. She's just a normal kid who has to deal with a little bit more than everyone else but that doesn't mean she doesn't deserve the same love and compassion as everyone else. Maelys is such an amazing friend to her & I'm so glad she convinced the rest of the friend group to not give up on Elle. I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for the next volume of this story - I need to know what happens to Elle!

The new girl in town, Elle, has no problems making friends, so said friends are very confused as Elle starts to behave erratically, like another person - multiple different people, in fact.

I like that the characters in this graphic novel talk. Elle opens up to her best friend about what happened at the last school, what seems to be up, and the friend group decides to on a journey to find out more.

We have five people in this friend group, and despite the high school setting, it was avoided to fall into the usual tropes, though I can't say if this is because it's a francophobe graphic novel or we just had a writer who knew their job.

The illustrations are beautiful, colourful, cutesy, without being overladen or too cute. It fits nicely in the story about a girl in high school age.

All in all, I liked this, from concept to writing to illustrations to pacing, and I want to read on and find out more, though the basic idea doesn't feel new.

The arc was provided by the publisher.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for making this available..

This novel had me hooked just from the cover! The illustrations are so beautiful and cute. I really enjoyed this, I loved the idea that when her moods/personality changed that her hair colour changed!

I loved seeing how easy the author explained and addressed Elle's mental health issues, we really need more stories like this, I feel that if we did it would be easier to explain complex mental health issues.

I really am looking forward to the next issue!

3.5/5🌟: this was really interesting, but unfortunately a bit short. i know graphic novels are short, but it felt a bit underwhelming, nonetheless. still, the art was beautiful and bright and i'm definitely intrigued by the story. i wish they wouldn't have used derogatory words in connection to therapists though.

thank you netgalley for the arc in exchange for an honest opinion.