rating: ⭐⭐⭐

totally grateful to netgalley and the publication to accept my request for the ARC, winx club was one of my favourite shows growing up.

And bloom was one of my favourite characters, I'm in love with the plot this comic had about how bloom came to her magic school and also loving the bond between the specialists and the fairies.
Just loved their transformations and their harmony against those witches.

Quite intrigued about Riven and his relationship with Musa upcoming.
I'm so excited for the next volumes.

This was so nostalgic and fun to read!
3 chapters continuing the Winx Club storyline with amazing graphics
Theres a character bio reference in the beginning to refresh the reader on the characters and their powers
A great follow up to the 1st volume
So good, i reccomend for anyone who watched the show growing

Two out of three chapters were not directly adapted/drawn from the show, but those are basically just fillers that are not interesting to me personally. I wish we get to see more of either the Winx or the Trix doing interesting stuff with funny banters. The Red Fountain men were so boring, why are they here in the first place? Anyways, I really did not enjoy this.

As a long time winx fan of both the show and comics this was a nice nostalgic read. The art style is a bit wonkier than I remembered but it didn’t bother me too much and its nice to see the classic costumes and dynamics.

That was just as fun, just as magical and enjoyable as the tv series...a good graphic adaptation of the tv series one might say plus can see new story points added in. Although feel this is better adaptation the 4kids translation.

Reading this feels like going back to my childhood.
I have to admit that the story is not the best and the illustration style either, but I have a good time every time that I read Winx Club. I need volume 3 ASAP.

This is a classic-style cartoon compilation. It's a nice representation of female friendship and has themes that littler girls will be into. There are also some cute animal characters.

It drives me a little crazy that Barbie and comics like this represent girls bodies in such a one-dimensional way. Can we get some different shapes and sizes please? Little girls aren't dumb and the empathetic ones will compare themselves whether we want them to or not.

I loved winx club as a kid and this was no exception, the art style is exactly what I remember and it's still a favourite
I think it portrayed a few really good messages that will help someone reading this book,

The Winx Club was a favorite of mine when I was younger, so I loved the opportunity to go back to these characters and read the second installment of the comics. This volume shows friendship in a candid way— how it’s formed, how it grows, and how we work things out with our friends. The message of female friendship in this volume is strong, and young girls reading this comic will be able to identify with and look up to the strong female main characters.

In this second volume, we finally find out how Stella and Bloom met as well as how Bloom discovered about fairy's powers and magical realms. The characters are easy to relate with, they sometimes fight or just like Bloom, she finds herself doubting about the choices she made and if she really belongs in Alfea.

You have more storytelling from the specialist's and Trix's point of view, you see them interact with the head and teachers of their schools and the missions they are given. And I love how the Winx have small poems as spells sometimes!

Something I like about the comics is that there are a lot more quests than in the cartoon. If you were a fan of the TV content, you can still discover some new material of our favorite fairies. I wish there were more stories in a single volume though.

Some drawings in the first story seem different depending on the characters: Stella's wings are disproportionate,Bloom's and the other characters' contour lines are not of the same thickness and don't have the same drawing style, it looks like they come from different comics.

It brings a feeling of nostalgia and addiction, and like Bloom said: "Alfea, Magix, the Winx Club... They're the best!"

Loved the three stories in this volume and even now as an adult I still wish i was bloom. I loved how they did the flashback to how bloom found out she was a fairy.

Honestly, I just love Winx Club! I used to watch the show as a kid and read all the books. I 100% wanted to be Bloom when I was little and she's still a badass fairy to this day. I love returning to these characters and the stories are so much fun. The story is in full color and I've always loved the art! There are so many main characters: the Winx Club fairies, the Trix witches, and the Specialists. Each has their own distinct power/skill/personality and bring something to the story, and while they're not all very developed yet it's still early in the series. I look forward to seeing each character grow and become more complex. You can see certain characters getting more on page time and can guess they might have more character development in the next volume. Any Winx Club fan will enjoy this one and even those who may be new to them will love this series. Winx Club is about friendship, magic, self-discovery, and so much more! It's a very quick read and will leave you wanting to rewatch the animated show or even the Netflix live action series (thought that one is VERY different and only lasted 2 seasons).

I voluntarily read and reviewed a digital ARC of this title from Papercutz via NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

If there is one thing you need to know about me, it's that I am a Winx Club fan first and human second. I devoted most of my younger years to the tv show, I spent all my pocket money to buy the comics and me and my friend used play and pretend we are a part of the Winx Club. I nearly wept tears of joy when my request for the ARC got approved - thank you NetGalley and Papercutz!

This is a delightful collection of three stories with full colors and it made me so nostalgic! If you have seen the tv show, the first story, A Fried for Bloom, is rather familiar to you - it's about how Bloom ends up at Alfea. The second story, Prisoners of the Dark, deals a lot with Bloom feeling homesick and feeling like she doesn't fit in which I loved reading about! I always felt like she got used to her new life unrealistically fast?

The third story in this collection, The Swamp Monster, is my favorite of the three! Firstly, there is a lot more action which I enjoyed greatly. But we also get to see a lot more of the guys from Red Fountain and the Trix trio! I always found them really fascinating and I loved reading about them a bit more!

Truly a great book for any Winx Club fan out there! I loved this one very much and I hope to fave the chance to read more of my favorite girls in the future! <3

4.5🩷

I loved it more than the first because there is more story and things to happen, there was also something new that is not in the series and I liked it, it was nice🤍 I already want to read all the next ones, I LOVE this group🥹🩷

This was a really cute collection of stories in the WInx Club universe. I really enjoy seeing these little episodes of things that they get up to, and seeing their friendship grow and develop over the course of the stories. It's also interesting to see the conflict with the witches. Some of the side characters are pretty one dimensional at this point, but I imagine as the graphic novels continue there will be more effort put into developing some of them. If you liked the show, I think you would enjoy this.

I love these graphic novel adaptations!
Loved the show when I was a kid, had all the graphic novels in Italian and now I'm revisiting my childhood!
A must for whomever loves this show, kids and adults alike!

What a great continuation! In this volume, we get more backstory to how Bloom and Stella first met (along with the main villains and the love interest). I feel like this first part goes out of order compared to the cartoon, and I think I like the order of the show more.

We also get more development for the main groups friendship. I like that they can admit when they were wrong and work on growing their relationships.

Excited for the next volume!

Thank you Papercutz and NetGalley for providing me with this arc in exchange for my honest review.

As in the first volume, we get 3 stories with bright and colorful illustrations.

The first story is one I missed in the first volume, where we finally get to see how Bloom learned about and ended up at Alfea. We also learn that she’s a menace on a bike haha. I loved that in this and in the second story, we get to see lots of Kiko, Bloom’s cute and brave pet rabbit!

The second story is about Bloom feeling down, homesick and insecure. When she can’t draw anymore, the one thing she’s always been good at and her friends make fun of her, it’s too much and she goes into a dangerous forest after hearing about a Heron feather she can find there and that might help her draw. But the witches from Cloud Tower are there too and trap Bloom in a very unique way. Kiko gets help but it isn’t easy for her friends and the guys from Red Fountain (who are there for orientation), to find her! It does make Bloom realize something important about her friends :). And as in the previous story, Knut gets involved too but we know you don’t mess with fairies!

The third and final story has lots of romantic moments between the fairies and the guys from Red Fountain. But also lots of action when they and the witches from Cloud tower are at a swamp where they face a monster that literally came from a nightmare!