For those who never read the original Tales of the City, when it was being written in the 1970s, this might seem as a strange nostalgia, and in a way it is. Taking place after Stonewall, but before AIDs, this is when the Gay Movement had nothing keeping it back. And San Francisco was the place to be.

The stories here are of people from the midwest, who are niave, and lovers that break up, and find new lovers, and men cheating on their wives, and all because they know the landlord of a boarding house, who brings them all together.

The stories are sad, and funny, and sweet, and all hard to imagine the world they all came from, but although the stories are fiction, the situation, at the moment, was real.

This is a good way to be introduced to Tales of the City, of which there are at least six books. This is illustrating the first one.

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

I'm a huge fan of the original books. Not sure if this was necessary - creating a graphic novel. The story felt rushed to me. Didn't have the wonderful pacing of the original books. Still if it gets to a new generation of readers, that's a good thing.

I read the novels when I was in college and loved the glimpse into life in San Francisco; their lives were filled with drama and fun. When I saw that it was remade into a graphic novel, I was excited to revisit the stories. I recognized the characters immediately and was drawn into their lives again but felt that the stories left a lot out, to a point where I was confused as to what was going on. It was difficult to follow the progressions because it jumped around so much and I didn't enjoy this as much as I would have liked. Add in that there were so many characters and it was almost impossible to keep up. The illustrations were well done and gave a good sense of location but this was not what I remembered it to be.