The Three Incestuous Sisters is undoubtedly strange, but it is also wonderfully Gothic. The illustrations are dark, and hold almost a sense of enchantment. A lovely and rather surprising visual novel.

What an astonishing illustrated book! Everything about it is wonderfully weird! “As the curtain slowly rises, the story begins with a gathering storm” and I was a goner! Everything was magical with a side of creepy. The story had love, tragedy and joy. What else could you want for any book?

So, today is my birthday and my fans, Tracy and Amy have requested that I write a review of this demented book. I find it amusing that the directions for posting a review includes the phrase "What I learned from this book" (as if we're kindergarteners just back from summer vacation)... but in this case it's actually helpful...One year ago at Christmas time I was shopping with my latest charming, psychotic, former crack dealer boyfriend... and suddenly the cover of this book loomed up at me from

Stunning book. Would love to read again.

Loved this! Reads like an eerie, warped, Shakespearean tragedy, accompanied perfectly by hauntingly stunning art. Just my cup of tea! Need all of the art by Audrey Niffenegger immediately.

I adored Niffenegger’s first book ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ and I gave it an A. I only wish I could have enjoyed this one even half as much. But I didn’t.It was strange, creepy, weird. Three sisters live alone and two fall in love with the same man – but he only loves one of them and they conceive a child. There is tragedy and then an ending – a happy ending – well you will have to judge that for yourself. I just think it is weird – a sort of grown-up wanna be Grimm brothers sort of story witho...

I'm impressed with Niffenegger's flexibility--creating a picture book like this (what she refers to as a "visual novel") and then writing a novel like The Time Traveler's Wife. The illustrations remind me of Henry Darger's work (http://www.akimbo.biz/UserFiles/Image..., for example) with the thin, fine lines that Niffenegger uses to outline the characters' bodies. I enjoyed the detail she incorporated to reveal the texture of things--the yarn-looking fur of a black cat and the gravelly backgroun...

I've read "Time Travelers Wife" and completely fell in love with it. It's one of my all-time favorite books. So after reading it a couple times, I thought I would look into the other works by Audrey Niffenegger. I bought "The Three Incestuous Sisters" over the internet, so I wasn't able to have a glimpse at it before purchasing it (I don't think there was even a cover picture of the book). But when I received my package and opened it up, first thing I noticed was the size and the cover art. It's...

Much better story than "The Adventuress". I thought the illustrations were more interesting, as well. I really enjoyed this, actually. It was a bit morbid in parts... but props to the author for managing to make a human fetus drawing look cute rather than creepy. Also.. I appreciate that it took her 14 years to make this.. but it seems kind of weird, since it only takes like.. 10 minutes to read/look at the pictures. It seems like her style of art (aquatone or something like that) is a bit more

This book was so-so for me. I liked the illustrations and I liked how it was creepy and weird but it wasn't creepy enough to be brilliant. It's obvious that Audrey Niffenegger thought about this book a lot (she even mentioned at the back that she spent years and years on it) but it didn't wow me. I think if you're going to call a book 'The Incestuous Sisters' you really have to go for it because otherwise it's kind of a letdown for the readers. This book has very few words. Audrey Niffenegger le...

I sort of feel bad for rating this a two, because I know it took an INSANE amount of work to create this book (14 years worth by Niffenegger's reckoning), but honestly, it really was just okay.Told mostly through pictures (painstakingly created but still only 'ehh' most of the time), the text in this book is really just a series of captions for the pictures. The story is loosely held together through that, and even though it is there -- and a rather disturbing story it is, too -- it never feels

I really liked this. I though the illustrations were beautiful. I loved the structure of the story, even though some parts were really jarring and unsettling. I'd consider buying my own copy, just to be able to reread it sometime and see what I missed before.

This will be one to visit again and again!

Because I was enthralled by Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife , this book immediately caught my eye whilst browsing at Page One, this funky suite of a bookshop at Vivocity (Singapore). I am not in the habit of paying a 50 or more for illustrated books although I don't mind buying them (the pittance that I collect every month for slaving at my job affords me but one paperback every month). So I got one of the staff to rip away the plastic and I read it there and then. Themes of loneliness, l...

Three sisters who live alone in an isolated house on the edge of town have their lives disrupted when a handsome young man falls in love with one of the sisters. The pair escape to town when one sister becomes jealous of the couple to the point where she plots to break up the union and take the man for herself. Things go badly, deaths occur, and out of the mess emerges a winged green boy. The book feels like a dream or a fairy tale. There's minimal text to accompany the large and beautiful drawi...

I've never read any sort of graphic novel before and was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this. It was only a few weeks ago I discovered AN is an artist as well as an author and when I saw this on the library shelf today I was immediately intrigued. The story is dark, another reviewer described it as an anti-fairytale which fits well, and wonderfully lyrical. What little words there are read like poetry: "Drowning, drowning in sadness, and the sea." The pared down prose seem the perfec...

Nice to be a first born.Classic tale of sibling rivalry set in grotesque art. Funny at times and mundane sometimes. The story hits me since I have 2 sisters (and definitely Adler would have a field day interpreting our personalities). Though, unlike the book , I think the dynamics of our sibling relationship is way, way much better than those in the book and my sisters agree with me, after all, all of us read this.A quick read, better admired for it's graphic art than its storyline, The Three In...