faith erin hicks
graphics/ya
first second
published 2012
After years of homeschooling, Maggie is starting high school. It's pretty terrifying. Maggie's big brothers are there to watch her back, but ever since Mom left it just hasn't been the same. Besides her brothers, Maggie's never had any real friends before. Lucy and Alistair don't have lots of friends either. But they eat lunch with her at school and bring her along on their small-town adventures.
Missing mothers...distant brothers...high school....new friends... It's a lot to deal with. But there's just one more thing...
I liked this one. Plot-wise there's not much going on and everything kind of finishes slightly unresolved, but the art is great and feels really familiar to me even though I don't think I've seen Hick's work before.
It's a great book for teens, about being different and accepting change, all that badness that you deal with in your teenage years. I really did enjoy it and was kind of sad it went by so fast!
This was probably the first graphic novel that I loved - I got into comics late. I'm pretty sure it's online based and their is a continuation of the story which is why you probably felt it finished unresolved.
ReplyDeleteHi Adriana! I got into non-superhero GNs late! From what I could gather, FwB was serialized and then she took that webcomic and published it with First Second. There was an alternate ending, by Miriam Gibson, but it's just a fun little one sheet. *sigh*
DeleteI quite enjoyed this one. I wrestled with whether or not I felt it needed the supernatural plot though. I was certainly more interested in the relationships and self-discovery plots, but maybe it needed the ghost to tie it all together?
ReplyDeleteI agree, I'm don't think her being haunted added any to the story. It could have been just a fascination with the story, but I think you're right. It was needed to tie everything together, or at least something like that was needed to tie them together.
Delete