Hi friends! So today I'm going to be doing a review on "The Sad Ghost Club Vol. 1" by Lize Meddings. This review is going to be short and sweet (like the title suggests) and spoiler free (however there will be the Goodreads synopsis in this and sometimes it can contain spoilers so please keep that in mind!)
"Ever felt anxious or alone? Like you don't belong anywhere? Like you're almost... invisible? Find your kindred spirits at The Sad Ghost Club.
This is the story of one of those days - a day so bad you can barely get out of bed, when it's a struggle to leave the house, and when you do, you wish you hadn't. But even the worst of days can surprise you. When one sad ghost, lost and lone at a crowded party, spies another sad ghost across the room, they decide to leave together. What happens next changes everything. Because that night they start The Sad Ghost Club - a secret society for the anxious and alone, a club for people who think they don't belong.
For fans of Heartstopper and Jennifer Niven, and for anyone who's ever felt invisible. You are not alone. Shhh. Pass it on."
So the reason I wanted to read this is because this has been recommended to me so much on booktok due to loving graphic novels, so I thought I'd give it a go. Friends, I was a little 50/50 on this one, but more towards liking it than not. I really enjoyed the message of "you are not alone" that this graphic novel was trying to portray and all of the recources that were given in regards to mental health. I 100% feel like if I'd of read this book at a younger age I definitely would have loved it a lot more. The art was cute, and the message was really pushed towards the reader. The only thing that made me dislike this a little was that I thought that this was a bit slow. I don't know if that's because all of the books I've been reading lately have been so fast paced and exciting or if it's just genuinely the way the graphic novel was meant to be written. Probably the latter as this graphic novel is towards young adults mental health. I will absolutely still be picking up the next books in the series because I really want to see where "The Sad Ghost Club" goes, and it wasn't a bad first volume, I just feel like I wanted more, and hopefully I will get that when it comes to the next books in the series. I would absolutely recommend this still to anyone who wants a good graphic novel about mental health, and knowing you're not alone in whatever you're going through.
I gave this book a 3/5 star rating on Goodreads.
What did you think of this book? Who were your favourite or least favourite characters? Do you have any books you'd recommend for me to read and do a review on? Please let me know down in the comments below!
Have a wonderful day!
Love, Doe!
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