This was a DNF for me. I wanted to like it, but the art was rough and the stories disjointed. There were some interesting ideas, and it could be great if Whit revisited it in the future to flesh it out more.

Loved this title. It was real while still being a viable fantasy.

I received an E-ARC of this book via Netgalley for an honest review.

These graphic novel features 3 individuals stories. The first 2 stories I really didn't enjoy and I did contemplate just not finishing as I was growing bored. But I do think the 3rd story was engaging enough to catch my attention again.

The stories are not ghost stories as the name suggests but rather a small collection of stories focusing on different aspects of loss in my opinion.

I didn't particularly like the art style in this graphic novel either.

Ghost Stories is a well writing and engaging graphic novel.
Split up into bite size chunks, it was very enjoyable to inhale each chunk in little pieces over one day.
Tackling issues such as body image, sexual assault, friendship and family history, I felt a learned a lot about the author illustrator in this semi-autobiographic tale.
I enjoyed the first story most of all when the main character gets to choose three people that have died to spend a day with. She chooses Charles Darwin, Joseph Campbell and Marilyn Monroe. She learns and reinforces her own beliefs with the first two, but when Marilyn does not appear but it's actually herself that appears before her on the third day - she has to face the way she feels about herself.
Topical and a good way to approach self-image to a YA audience.

Nice hand drawn art style but the first story was a bit all over the place for me. I'd read more from this author but this book wasn't for me. I preferred the middle story the most out of the three.

*Disclaimer: I received this book for free on NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.*

I went into this with high hopes and was thoroughly disappointed. The idea of a short story collection in graphic novel form sounded like something I would really enjoy but unfortunately this was not executed well at all in my opinion. 

The illustration style itself wasn't the kind of art that I am particularly drawn to. It was the kind of drawing that I feel I could have done, which would have been fine if the story had stepped it up but it didn't. I found that some tough topics were introduced but never went anywhere and the writing itself was clunky in places. 

I wouldn't recommend this at all to be honest and I'm sad that the art style didn't match the cover.

Thank you to Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read "Ghost Stories" by Whit Taylor. A quirky graphic novel that took my mind on an unexpected journey. I love the art that this graphic novel has. I was a little disappointed when I found out that it wasn't about ghosts in a literal sense. "Ghost Stories" made me think about my life in different ways. I was a little confused at times but overall, a peculiar read for people looking for something different in the form of a graphic novel.

It was an okay book, not exactly what I had in mind when I started it. Very short.

Intuiting collection. I’m not sure I’m the ideal audience for this and think other readers would enjoy it more. The illustrations made me remember time spent coloring and I was happy to have that reminder, but the stories weren’t quite a hit for me as I think they would be for someone else.

This book had a really cute art style and that cover is absolutely stunning, however if you are thinking about picking it up to satisfy your craving for something bone-chillingly scary this is not the book for you.

As opposed to nightmare inducing ghosts, the three stories that make up this book delve into more metaphorical ghosts; those of our past relationships and traumas as well as those pesky skeletons in the closet. The message of one story in particular, Ghost, is particularly poignant to me and was the one that I found to be the most touching and relatable to me personally.

It was a very quick read with a touching art style but I honestly didn’t like the how the stories just felt incomplete, which is the only reason for my “okay” rating.

Not what I expected
Whit Taylor takes a very different route to give her memoirs a whole different feel. She use three comics to portray three parts of her life that haunts her. Or at least that's what I've been told.

The thing is, the comics was really confusing. I had to read each one a few times to get what she was trying to say and I'm still not sure about the last one.
This one is definitely not for all - as I've seen some how obviously loved it; I'm just not one of them.
However I do like the idea of a memoir in the form of a comic!

(I got this through netgalley)... I wasn't sure what to expect from this but I found it charming. This isn't about real ghosts but of certain moments that you can never go back to.

I'm not an experienced 'graphic novel' reader, so wasn't quite sure what to expect here...
As it turned out, I was surprised (pleasantly) by the tome, content and sentiment of this book.
Not your typical (or traditional?) 'ghost' stories, more the modern social-media phenomena of people becoming ghosts in their own lives or being 'ghosted'. themselves.
Nonetheless, the stories were well-crafted and delightfully illustrated and, I thought, captured the sentiments perfectly but with kindness and insight. The graphic style was clean and simple, no 'Dark Knight' shadowy angst here, just real=life, laid bare. I almost cried (and I'm a big, tough guy, honest!).
Would have liked a little more! And I would have liked the mechanism of reading the book to be easier (might be a factor of the preview edition?) - I found I had to enlarge each page (and then reduce again) manually in order to be able to read the text then turn the page. This was a little irksome - but worth the effort.

Thank you to NetGalley for a free eCopy of Ghost Stories in return for an unbiased review. This comic seemed very all over the place and unorganised, and there didn't seem to be much of a point. I don't really have a lot to say because it didn't make me feel anything, which is a pity. Overall it's clearly not the sort of comic for me which is a pity as the cover and synopsis looked good.

I just don't think I understood this. Everything was kind of open to interpretation, which I really don't like. The art style was okay. I just didn't connect with this at all.

This graphic novel was a nice surprise.
Deep, a little bit melancholic at times, but more importantly, passing on a deeply important message about mental health and the people actively or passively affected by issues arising from it.

Three individual stories make their appearance in this novel, each describing different aspects of loss, transition and, above all, self-discovery.

The stories were shorter than I had expected, and some of them ended abruptly, making me think about their subjects and wonder, at some points, at what exactly the creators had in mind.

All in all, a very interesting read, which makes you question your opinions on things, more of which I would have loved to immerse in.

I liked the stories, but wasn't such a big fan of the illustration style. I really liked the middle story, Wallpaper, though none are really ghost stories.

3/5 stars

If you are looking for a spooky story to scare the socks off of your's and everyone else's feet, put down this book, get some tissues and cookies, and then sit yourself back down and reopen this book as this is not a book of scary ghost stories. Instead, this is a book full of stories that tell of the ghosts that are part of one person's life.

As I wrote before, this was not the book I was expecting as I thought it was going to be literal ghost stories; however, I was wrong. I was so wrong. Instead, this book has three different stories written by Whit Taylor, discussing different points of her life in three different stories. The three different stories each have simple and beautiful illustrations that tell of a deeper story that what seems to be told. There is one that actually does show some ghosts that have influenced Taylor's life, one that tells a little bit about her childhood and her time with depression and anxiety, and one that has to deal with childhood friendships that never survive. I found them to be somewhat entertaining and somewhat enlightening. Some parts of the stories spoke to me and others did not. I also found that these stories are done in a very creative and a new way since this story is told through multiple drawings.

Although I may have enjoyed some aspects of this autobiography told through several drawings, which remind me of my days spent in Kindergarten, I found them to "ghost" or never fully develop. (I tried to make a ghosting pun. Get off my back!) They were there one minute and not there the next. I want to know what happens when Taylor meets Charles Darwin when she speaks of evolution or what happens after she breaks off her relationship with her best friend.

Lastly, I have enjoyed reading this book; however, some parts were not for me. Even though I could have lived without reading this book, I am glad I did as it opened me up to some new reading experiences and reading new things.

I don't know what I just read! Is this a middle grade book?
This book was not for me and is hard to determinate to who I may recommend it...

This was an okay graphic novel consisting of three shorter stories with common themes. The style of the art was quite engaging and the stories were quite snapshot in nature which made them a little disjointed but certainly didn't get dull. None of the stories had a very satisfying ending, but I guess that's a bit like life. Sometimes there isn't always an ending.

Like other readers, I thought this would be actual ghost stories, but I didn't mind when it turned out to be something different. The stories are more about self-discovery and I guess a bit about laying the ghost of the past to rest.

All in all I quite enjoyed this one.