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.

(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.

An interesting piece of work, with lots of appeal, I really enjoyed this graphic novel. which is made up of a collection of three stories about hauntings of various kinds. In the first story we travel great distances in time and space and learn about healing, there is a clever little twist in this tale that made it particularly enjoyable. However the second story, Wallpaper was probably my favourite and featured some beautiful illustrations of patterns, from the obvious wallpaper of the title , to the more surprising pizza. The final story is probably the saddest, dealing with the gradual disintegration of a friendship due to time, distance and simply growing up. Each story adds something unique to the collection. Overall I found it an enjoyable and interesting book, and it felt like I was reading something that was personal to the author, but would have resonance with many readers. While the artwork was not always to my taste, the illustrations in Wallpaper truly were outstanding, in their use of colour, and the way they made the mundane special and interesting.

loved the concept of this graphic novel.
Our main character called ghost meets three people, three people who represent her past, past experiences and things she lost which in turn make her reflect and challenge her life perceptions. These experiences were illustrated well and the messages strong through the art work but the stories felt incomplete and could of been expanded on slightly more. However, I don't regret the few hours spent on following ghost's reflections and it made a nice change to my usual books.
My thanks go to the author, publisher and Netgalley in providing me with this arc in return for an honest review.

This one was not for me, unfortunately. I felt drawn in by the cover, but the stories didn't hold my attention. In ghost, it seemed too derivative of A Christmas Carol, but didn't add any value to the plot. I appreciate all the effort in the artwork. That's a tough task!

*thank you to Netgalley for providing an ARC

The graphics in Ghost Stories were lovely. The story that used wallpaper was particularly beautiful.

I worked at understanding the threads of the different stories, and I felt the effort was well worth the reward. The stories provide a kernel of an idea and In every story I searched for a ghost of a feeling, of a childhood, of a wilting friendship.

Ghost Stories is a quiet graphic novel that carries a message with a punch.

Yikes. I am so unbelievably confused by what I just read! Moving past the title 'Ghost Stories' as being a bit misleading, I had so many issues with this book! Firstly the stories themselves. I'm so confused as to what they were about and what they actually mean. They felt more like a stream of consciousness than a well-structured, thought-out storyline. Especially in 'Wallpapers'. I didn't much like 'Ghost' because I felt that the character didn't really learn anything from anyone that she met, it was more like a lesson on what that person believed and taught and I could get that from reading their books, explained to me in a much better way too. 'Makers' was also disappointing as it dragged on, the dialogue felt stilted, and there was once again no point to the story. I wasn't totally on board with the religion bashing either.

Sad to say, what could have scored this book higher would be the art, but I really didn't like it. I found it very juvenile, some of it not coloured in properly and rough, and it was like looking at the work of a child most of the time. It was so disappointing! Especially as the cover for this book is gorgeous! Whatsmore, I became VERY agitated with the mistakes in spelling and language. 'Me and ' for example. Or the joke about lunacy, referring to the moon as a planet? How on earth did any of this get through editing? It gave me the vague notion that someone had approached with a hand-drawn notebook of ideas and it's immediately been put into print! Weird, nonsensical, and I spent the entire reading experience trying to find a way to make sense of it all...I failed.

This wasn't for me. I hoped that the artwork would be similar to the gorgeous cover, but it was more sketch-like and simplistic, coloured in felt pen, and I found it quite ugly. I don't mind that the stories weren't traditional ghost stories in that they weren't creepy or scary, but I hoped that they would explore the meaning of ghosts, what they represent to us etc. – but I didn't get that. Basically it's a sketch-like, semi-autobiographical comic, which isn't a genre I particularly enjoy. My search continues for beautifully drawn comics about ghosts...

*thank you to Netgalley and Rosarium Publishing for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review*

1.5 stars.
What was that?
This was kinda an odd book and I'm left without anything to say about it. It wasn't a bad book, just not for me. The drawings weren't very good which was a bit distracting. There were 3 seperate stories all up but, well, I don't have anything to say about them. A positive though, I do like the cover.

Quick read.
This was a pretty little book that I initially thought was going to be creepy; however once I started it I soon realized it wasn't going to be creepy in the normal sense but in some of the topics it would try and talk about e.g. death, growing apart from someone who was close to you, etc.
The art style is not my favourite but it was nice to look at, quite sketchy.