This was so cute and powerful! It’s really easy to feel for both Marjorie and Wendell. It’s a beautiful story. The build in relationship for Marjorie and ghost Wendell could have slowed down a bit. I’d also like to see more of the relationship with the swim coach and Marjorie. Marjorie’s dad is a sad story for him and mainly for his kids. I wish we could have seen him work harder to get better for them.

This book is so sweet- loved it! The art work fits the story so well, and the message is perfect too. I would definitely buy this for my own library.

The illustrations in this book were amazing and vibrant. The book, however, focused on dark emotions such as loss, depression and isolation. The heartbreaking plot. focused on a middle school age girl trying to navigate through school while facing both teenaged and adult bullies, the loss of her mother and the pressure to run a business on her own while her father morns. While I really enjoyed this book I found that the plot was a little hard to follow.

(3.5) cute little graphic novel about friendship, death, and life. Some of it felt a little unrealistic, and I would have loved to see more of an exploration into Marjorie and Wendell’s lives, but I loved the representation of grief and loss in a way that felt realistic, yet lighthearted.

Such a cute graphic novel filled with adorable character that discusses the trauma of death, but in a way that can be easily grasped by children.

4,25☆

This is a really cute and easy to read story. I think this is perfect for the middle grade audience. The novel deals with the topics of death, its aftermath and grief very well and in a suitable way for the age range. The illustrations are beautiful and suit the story well.

This felt very young and definitely more childrens than YA. Wanted to try something a little different but wasn't blown away.

If you've ever wanted a Ghost for a best friend this graphic novel is for you. Dealing with topics of care taking, loss, and grief this graphic novel is both emotional and haunting.

Marjorie Glatt hates two things. 1. Laundry. 2. Ghosts. She has spent her life feeling invisible. Wendell is a ghost. A boy who died too young and is struggling to come to terms with what happened to him. He feels isolated and alone from the other ghosts around him. The two will need to work together to overcome their trauma.

This is a great read for preteens who feel invisible in their own skin. It touches delicately on mental health in a way that is accurate yet easy to understand for the determined audience. It’s a very sweet and whimsical story.

I also really liked the art style and how colourful the illustrations are.

Good start to a teen graphic novel series, exploring themes of friendship, bullying, loss, hope, and other deep feelings. Art was eye-catching and while the themes might be heavy, they were presented in a way that teens can understand and learn from. I liked it!

Recommend if you like: cute ghosts, laundry, graphic novels, happy endings, YA lonely teens

Story a bit simple and young for me where everything magicked better by the end. Bit confused why the FMC needed a date with someone she had never shown interest in to complete the book. But I loved the artwork and the ghosts were cute.

Lovable characters, sweet story, and wonderful art. This was very up my alley!!! I'd love to continue to read Thummler's work and this was a great start to the trilogy.

This is the first graphic novel I have read and I devoured it in one sitting. I loved the concept of the story and I liked the characters - well not Mr Moustache! The illustrations were nautical and captured the mood of the characters so well. A really great book and I am definitely getting other books by this author,

The images throughout we're quite stunning and the book is just very simple. I loved it and can't wait to read more by this author!

I really enjoyed Sheets and the message behind it. The graphic novel beautifully demonstrated the different ways people experience grief. Thummler did a wonderful job of using humor to break up the heaviness of the novel. I loved the ghost scenes and the humor they brought to the story. The illustrations were cute and expressive. The ending with the little boy was EVERYTHING. This was a very unexpected and fun graphic novel. Thank you NetGalley for the arc.

I liked this story. It was hard to read at times because there was a lot of focus on death and grief, but I appreciated the whimsy of the afterlife. Just a bunch of souls in sheets keeping themselves clean and laundered. In the land of the living Marjorie is still struggling with the sudden loss of her mother and her family's struggling laundromat. Enter Wendell, a childish ghost fond of telling tall tales, who seems to do nothing except make things worse for Marjorie. The two unlikely pair may not always see eye to eye, but they come together when it really matters.

Sheets was a quick read that focused on some heavy hitting topics, but balanced some of it out with humor. An overall enjoyable read.

Sheets is the sad story of Marjorie Glatt and her battle to run her deceased mothers laundry business with no help from her severely depressed father. Until a rogue little ghost causes a bit of chaos.
The art is lovely and hints to some of the deeper aspects of the story, it's very much show don't tell.
Even though the story is fun and sometimes very heartwarming it's overall a very sad story in a lot of aspects and left me feeling a bit heavy hearted afterwards.

I had high hopes for Sheets and although the artwork is very well done and the plot is heartbreaking and sweet all rolled into one, I feel like it just missed the mark for me.

Sheets by Brenna Thummlers, is my first graphic novel for a while, I am so happy I chose this one because it possesses some classic elements that make any story enjoyable.

We have a main character, Marjorie Glatt, an awkward girl who struggles to be accepted at school. She is also missing her mother, who died a while back, leaving her father and her to run their laundry business. But it’s really the 13-year-old Marjorie who runs the show. Dad is sad.

Now this is where Graphic Novels hit the mark for me – we usually use our minds-eye to envisage a character in a novel, and that’s cool. But here, the image of poor Marjorie shows a truly sad girl. She's really miserable. She appears awkward and totally despondent as she deals with the downs of her life and the stress of dealing with obnoxious customers in the struggling family business. Oh dear.

It just so happens, a bunch of ghosts – you know, the <i>conventional sheeted</i> ones visit Marjorie’s laundry from time to time and cause all types of mayhem.

Now, there’s a bad man involved, and his name is Nigel Saubertuck – what a nasty bloke he is too – well, he’s trying to con Marjorie into handing over the business to him in exchange for a bogus offering.

This work has the classic good vs. evil elements with the added dimension of the old-fashioned ghost adorned in their white sheets – who play a major role in the outcome.

It's a pretty sad story, if I'm being honest. The blend of grief narrative really did touch me. I also did like that after the sad and depressing parts, there's a ray of sunshine, after all. I'm definitely looking forward to the rest of the series.