Spoilers in here!...There's a lot going on in this slip of a novel, framed as the journal of a high schooler named Wendy who's struggling to stay grounded in reality after a family tragedy. The journal is assigned by the therapist she's seeing and she keeps trying to rid herself of it, but eventually it becomes a meaningful way to process through her grief. The book (journal) is drawn in grayscale with touches of brown and splashes of full color here and there. Then there are sections in full co...

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This book.This book is absolutely STUNNING.The illustrations had me heart eyed and drooling. I think I sent half the bok to my friends on snapchat because a illustration was just that gorgeous.The use of color, the choice of color, the lack of color. The only semblance of color in his book is whenever Wendy would see anything to do with "Neverland" or her brother. I loved every single stroke of it.I'm speechless.This graphic novel is absolutely marvelous.(The story was great too, but it was more...

Published on The Nerd Daily | Review by Annie BurdickThe Wendy Project is a short, but poignant graphic novel based on the classic story of Peter Pan. It begins fairly grounded in reality–a car accident, a broken family, teenage drama–but slowly delves more and more into the magical realism sphere, ultimately coming to resemble its literary predecessor, Peter Pan.First, the illustrations in this graphic novel are absolutely stunning. They incorporate colour effectively, consistently, and in a wa...

Wendy is driving with her two younger brothers one night when she skids off the road into a lake. She wakes up to find her youngest brother is presumed dead. She refuses to accept it, so her parents decide to send her to a shrink and new school. All along she is seeing these allusions to Peter Pan.A story of grief and loss with very fitting art from Veronica Fish. The sparse use of vivid color on a mostly black and white page provides some stunning visuals.My only issue with the book is the hand...

This is so beautiful and sweet and sad. Gorgeous artwork and a bittersweet story.Wendy and her brothers are in a car crash, and Wendy swears she saw her youngest brother Michael flying off with Peter Pan, but no one believes her. She gets in trouble at school, and sort of connects with a weird guy named Peter. He's enigmatic and unreliable, only interested in having fun, but Wendy believes he could lead her to her brother. Wendy's therapist tells her to draw in a journal, and she begins to docum...

One of those books I’d heard mentioned, but didn’t know anything about, this graphic novel blurs the line between fantasy and reality as a high school girl tries to come to grips with a car accident--she was driving and her younger brother died. “Fault” is a slippery concept; guilt is hard to escape. Who is responsible? Is anyone?And grief—how to hold it, name it, keep it from eclipsing all else?Where is that child now? What is death? How can the living honor the dead, keep them, but also let th...

A new take on dealing with the grief of losing a loved one. The art and concept are definitely interesting, but I would enjoy more real life and less fantasy for this one.

A haunting modern retelling of the Peter Pan story from Wendy’s perspective. A very deep musing on the psychological effects of grief and guilt. Highly recommended for grown-up readers: this is not a kid’s book (there’s nothing “mature” content-wise, but it does have some deep psychological themes).

An interesting retelling of Peter Pan as an exploration of guilt and grief. The art is fantastic, and I love the way limited color is used to differentiate mundane from magical.

This book is good but suffers from being the book I read immediately after Patrick Ness' more powerful A Monster Calls. They are very similar in themes and structure, with fantasy elements being injected in a fuzzy way to help the main character cope with grief over the loss of a loved one. Peter Pan serves here in place of the large tree monster. Regardless, I like the way Osborne tweaks the Neverland mythos. I could have done without the circular old cliche of the book itself being the one a c...

Wendy drifts between fantasy and reality in this lovely and heartbreaking modern take on a classic. A poignant story of loss, fear, family, and hope--Wendy loses herself within her journal, the journal that is the graphic novel itself, and must find the strength within herself to return to reality and her family. While the retelling itself is brilliantly done, the artwork is the star here--using the slightest bits of color throughout black & white graphics, the reader feels Wendy's back and fort...

For fans of This One Summer, but with a Peter Pan retelling twist. Caution Warning for Depression, Suicidal Thoughts, and PTSD.

The Wendy Project by Melissa Jane Osborne is a wonderfully told modern retelling of the classic tale Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie. Wendy gets into a terrible car accident while driving with her two brothers, John and Michael, veering off a bridge and into water. When she wakes up in the hospital and hears that her youngest brother Michael is dead gone , Wendy goes into a state of denial. She shocks her family by insisting that Michael is still alive and out there somewhere, lost, with a b...

Beautiful, poignant and heartbreaking.

I was provided an ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.I’m speechless. I threw myself into this graphic novel without knowing what to expect and I’m very glad I did… It was incredible. The drawings are magnificent (for their designs as much as their coloring) and the story grabbed me and transported me. I was saying to two friends recently that I had trouble getting into comics because the characters weren’t as layered than in novels and I couldn’t really form a connection to them....

Received from: Super GeniusReceived Via: NetGalley.com Why this book?I love retellingsWhat I thoughtOne of the best graphic novels I have read! The graphics are beautiful and the storyline heart breaking. Can't wait for the next one.

Want to see more bookish things from me? Check out my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfer...After the death of her younger brother, Michael. 16 year old Wendy is convinced he's still alived, just up in the sky with a magical boy named Peter. Wendy is sent to a new school but begins having trouble differentiating between what is real and what is make believe. She is sent to a therapist, who starts her drawing in a notebook. Is the notebook just a place to express her feelings o...

My heart just got ripped to shreds, how are YOU doing?And as someone who only watched the Disney cartoon and 2003 live action Peter Pan movies... This retelling was both gorgeously haunting and brutal. The artwork is breathtaking, very much like a painting, and the (minimal) use of color is effective and smart. Gotta say, it was really nice to see the book text interspersed throughout, even if it was difficult reading some of the words. I wish this wasn't so short though. More aspects of the sto...

This is such an original and unique retelling of Peter Pan. Set in modern day times but with a nod to fantasy, Wendy has to come to terms with the death of her younger brother Michael. The use of color to portray what was reality and what was fantasy (or a part of Neverland) was excellently used.