The characters are fantastic and we get a lot of character development for such a short book. I like the simple use of only one color per scene, changing to match moods or time of day and Bryon effectively gets a lot of emotion and energy across. With a very loose but also very expressive character design, Bryon keeps up a fast pace bouncing between school, home, and parties while juggling dialogue and interior monologues across scenes or back and forth through time that really pushes the story forward without ever feeling cluttered or confusing. This story was so much fun, and the artwork truly adds to the upbeat vibes of the book.

It is such an adorable book, especially since Ella and Madeline are so cute together:Īlso it comes highly recommended by Alice Oseman, Molly Knox Ostertag, and my personal favorite graphic novelist Tillie Walden, and those three are amazing. What ensues is a hilarious romcom as the two girls try to make things right by crashing parties to secretly return everything they’ve ever stolen. And then that the party was at Madeline’s house… but Madeline also likes to steal to feel a tiny bit of control in her life. The two hit it off, but Ella wakes up the next morning to discover she stole random stuff from the party. Ella crashes a party and meets Madeline, the girl she has been crushing on. Which is fitting, as the catalyst for Ella and Madeline’s blossoming romance happens to be an act of drunken larceny that makes for a riotous premise. My heart has been stolen by Thieves, the upbeat and adorably queer graphic novel from Lucie Bryon.

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