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I really enjoyed reading a graphic novel interpretation of Radium Girls, The artwork was interesting, and I liked the symbolic use of colors. I appreciated that the focus was less on the gruesome aspect of what the radium did to them, and it focuses more on their lives, sorrows, laughter, and their struggle. I will gladly recommend *is book for my library to hopefully get in!

Beautiful illustration of course. The book does a good job of telling the story. I think the translation is a little weak.

I actually had to do two readthroughs of this one to fully form my thoughts about it, because although it's a story I know and one that has become more... I hesitate to use the phrase mainstream, but the book The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women definitely shot it into the sphere of more common knowledge, there's things here that I wasn't fully aware of and wanted to take another peek at. While I love most historical graphic novels, this one caught my eye even more because I actually thought it was related to Moore's book, and I was delighted to find out it wasn't. This book is actually relatively unbiased, too, it paints the women for who they are; for better and for worse. A few people have keyed into the scene on the beach, which I understand where some may find it offensive, however I think it lends a certain amount of humanity and timeliness to the whole situation. Not every activist was perfect, not every person was a saint, and Cy has done a wonderful job showing the effects of society on these women. Their story is one of trying to exist, really, in a terrible situation, and the tone is set beautifully with the style and colour scheme of this, definitely one I'd recommend picking up.

Thanks to NetGalley and Letter Better Publishing Services for an egalley in exchange for an honest review
Inspired by Kate Moore's The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women, this graphic novel illustrated in coloured pencil once again presents the little-known story of the women in the early 20th century who died after contracting radium poisoning from their job as dial makers.
I felt that this makes a great companion to Moore's non-fiction work. References to traditional courtships, domestic violence, sexuality, prohibition, and women's voting rights help place the reader in the time period.

I highly recommend this graphic novel to your TBR.





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Expected Publication 03/05/22
Goodreads review published 24/02/22

I wanted to read the nonfiction book about the Radium Girls, but, let's be honest...I didn't have the time. So this graphic novel was a great way to learn about this fascinating story. The story is very simple, but the main details are all there. It's incredibly sad what happened to these women and how their fight helped change workplace policies and laws, but it couldn't save their own lives. This was a fast read, but one that will stick with me. The art was also an interesting compliment to the story, especially with the use of the green. I will be buying this for my school library with our next book order.

Beautiful illustrations and a faithful adaptation of one of the most foul labor crimes in United States history. Cy made the girls come off the page as real people. I'll be recommending this to my library as a potential purchase.

This book was a gorgeous take on the story of the Radium Girls, an important moment in American history. These women suffered greatly, and I'm so thrilled that their story is being told in another format to make it even more accessible to new readers.

The art was gorgeous and made me rethink about the way the story was told. I really enjoyed it, and can't wait to make a display highlighting this title along with the other books about the Radium Girls we own here at the library. It will be a wonderful addition to our collection!

This book covers a really important topic. Unfortunately the drawing style makes it very hard to tell the women apart, especially the three sisters. The plot is also extremely fast paced. We got slight glimpses of the characters’ personalities, but not enough for any of them to actually stick out.

This graphic novel was so well done. The artwork and coloring was perfect considering the subject matter. I read Radium Girls by Kate Moore last year and cannot stop thinking about it. This was another great addition to the work about these girls. It was a quick read but so powerful.

As someone familiar with the historical events this was a beautiful display in graphic novel format. The colored pencil illustrations transported you into the time period in a way I wouldn't have thought of. For those unfamiliar with the Radium Girls this is a very accessible graphic novel to learn about the events.

A really beautiful take on the Radium Girls story. The art is done in colored pencils and adds a really gorgeous "softness" to the book. The style is very sleek and bright, and while the character designs were beautiful it was somewhat hard to differentiate between some of them.

It's a short read that goes into the basics of the girls who painted radium watches and the aftermath. There's not much deep dive into the nitty gritty of the trials or much about the more gruesome deformities, but it starts the conversation and is a great jumping off point into other books.

This book tells an important story with great compassion, focusing on the lives and relationships of the "Radium Girls," emphasizing the injustice of their deaths. The art is evocative and draws you in.

Una storia ancora poco conosciuta, quella delle Radium Girls e della lotta che le ha contrapposte all'azienda che le ha condannate a morte. Ingerivano radio per lavoro, risplendevano al buio; hanno lentamente cominciato ad avere dolori fortissimi alle ossa, perdere i denti, morire l'una dopo l'altra, perché le alte sfere, pur consapevoli della tossicità del materiale con cui fabbricavano orologi e producevano cosmetici (!), si sono rifiutate di tutelarle.
E' una storia semplice, il racconto di un gruppo di ragazza giovani, vitali, che amavano ballare ed erano orgogliose di lavorare, che si sono costruite una famiglia, che hanno perso tutto in una lenta agonia, e dell'eredità che hanno lasciato ai lavoratori americani: più sicurezza sul lavoro, il diritto di essere tutelati e risarciti dalle loro aziende.
Risplendevano di una luce molto più bella di quella tossica che avevano loro imposto con il silenzio.

Radium Girls does a great job of telling this story in an accessible, engaging way. The artwork is stunning, and Cy makes the characters so relatable that their fates still hit you, even though you know what's coming.

A beautifully tragic story of the women who were poisoned by radium in the early 20th century. A great companion to the graphic novel, this story doesn't hold back any punches with the graphic and gruesome deaths these women go through when their lives were just beginning.

The heartbreaking story of the radium girls told with empathy and humanized these women who were very badly wronged by their employer. The art style is beautiful and haunting. A fantastic non fiction graphic novel.

Super glad this didn't go into the overly gory details but recognised the 'ghost girls' fight for compensation and how their story went on to change employment law in the US.

No matter how much I read about it, I still can't believe this actually happened to them.

Rest in peace Girls X

So, this book.... the art is wonderful! The narrative of the Radium Girls is broadly accurate. But there are just some historical inaccuracies that set my teeth on edge. The background historical events seemed to be a way to demonstrate the chronological timeline of events, but that needs some help.

I was off kilter with the first page, which showed one of the future Radium Girls listening to a radio before heading off to work. The visual way the radio and sounds from it were depicted was awesome! The way it said that it depicted a scene in 1918 was not. Radios weren't household things then. In the 20s, yes. Then they're in a speakeasy during Prohibition? And then getting the 19th Amendment passed? It took many pages to think that maybe it was a device for showing time passage, but eventually you quit doing the googling that the author or editor didnt do for you.

As far as showing the disabled person at the beach and the Radium Girls comments- 1 Many states had "ugly laws" at this time, making it illegal for deformed people to be in public, the comments were 100% in character and 2 It's a piece of irony given where the Radium Girls are headed - toothless, unable to walk or eventually move, sores on their faces, etc. That said, it served little to no purpose as these things arent made clear at all and no lines are drawn for this.

I'm wondering if half of the details in the story stayed in the author's head instead of making it to the page.

Thank you to Cy, Letter Better Publishers, and Netgalley for an advanced ecopy of the english version in exchange for an honest opinion