Her artwork is expressive and fun, with the comic strip style of her graphic novels engaging readers across a broad range of reading levels. Telgemeier shares the joys, challenges and anxieties of daily life with a touching but lighthearted style, exploring themes related to family, friendship and school life. These are stories full of heart and hope, with characters and situations that are so relatable for middle grade kids. Haven’t read Smile or Guts yet? Check out all of the Raina Telgemeier titles here: Amazon | The Book Depository. They then devoured Drama, and later Ghosts, as well as all of Telgemeier’s contributions to The Baby-Sitters Club graphic novel series,and we were first in line when Telgemeier’s most recent memoir, Guts, hit bookstore shelves. Raina Telgemeier’s Smile and Sisters were the two titles that first turned both of my girls into fans of graphic novels. I will strongly recommend this book - over, and over again.Inside: Our pick of 21 awesome read alike graphic novels for fans of Raina Telgemeier. Some of it was magnetic, calling to me like sweet, sweet nectar. Some of it was sickening, revolting - just like the titular “mad honey”. The voices of these characters are raw, and the writing is alive. Mad Honey is about family, pain, bees (obviously), and violence. It is about trust, and about secrets it is about the ability to be anything, and go anywhere. Mad Honey is about owning one's identity, and the right to protect that. It is a story about how people can be both good and evil, and how one can both love and doubt them. But much greater than that, it is a story of love - romantic love, the love a parent has for their child, and toxic love. Mad Honey is, yes, a murder drama set in a small rural town. Only, this book feels to me deeper, messier, more complex, and more gutting. Readers have come to love Picoult’s dramatic court-settings, and the ethical quandaries her characters experience - and Mad Honey is no different. Like, TOTAL PLOT TWIST at almost exactly 50%! I actually like that it - Lily's biggest secret - was as big of a surprise to me, as it was to (almost) everyone in the courtroom. As a result - and perhaps because I had not read any reviews or further information about the novel, prior to reading it - Lily’s truth was a massive surprise to me. That brings me to her co-author, Jennifer Finney Boylan, who I - shamefully - knew nothing about when I started reading Mad Honey. I enjoyed the meta experience of knowing that the book was authored by two people, and I appreciate Picoult’s knowledge that Lily’s story wasn’t really her’s to tell. Instead, Picoult has shown that she has the courage to evolve in her writing. I think that is very important, because many famous writers will strike upon a method that works, and never stray from it. I started reading Picoult many, many years ago, and her writing has grown beautifully. Is there an element of formulaism in her work? Certainly - but it is overshadowed by her gift of flaying open the conundrums of human emotion. Here’s the thing about Jodi Picoult: she writes the very human condition, and that is why she is so popular. Popular Crime & Action Series Expand submenu.
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