This title features hauntingly beautiful art with lush landscapes and mythical details that are unfortunately overshadowed by a disconnected and bizarre plot. A niche story for those who appreciate modern twists on darker fairy tales, or for fans of the darker undertones of Where the Wild Things Are and the randomness of the adventures in Over the Garden Wall.

Thank you Netgalley for a copy in exchange for my honest review.

At first, this book felt a bit biblical, then the pace and style changes so much it's more middle grade than children's or adult graphic novel. Then the themes pick up and again metaphors come in.

I read in in about 20 minutes, startled by probably how many hours had been put in to create those fantastic drawings while it only takes the reader a few seconds gazing at each. The story is relatively fast-paced, so unless you stop and dwell on each scene there really isn't much time to appreciate every little detail.

But the artwork is really amazing. With so many different styles to keep you surprised and intrigued at the same time.

A definite fun read for all graphic novel lovers.

The cover art for The Lost Path is what interested me. I hadn't realized the book was a graphic novel which meant an abundance of quirky illustrations to explore throughout the story!

The story is an odd sort of mystery involving three friends who wander off into a forest of enchantment. They encounter an interesting variety of talking creatures. The story has some mythological elements as well. One advantage of the digital version was being able to enlarge portions of the page to get a really close look at the elaborate panels.

Not sure if the tale is purposely open ended or whether this is the first in a series. The reader is left with quite a few unanswered questions and not a whole lot of character development. I definitely give the author credit for a visually engaging and imaginative story. An interesting addition to the graphic novel genre that even young audiences can enjoy.

Disclaimer: I received a free digital copy of The Lost Path from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

first of all...this story was fantastic and the art work was just outstanding. what i like about this book is the its simple and light and its kind of god feel book.
wonderful book

The Lost Path is a strange story of three boys lost in the wood. The tale follows them as they try to figure a way home while encountering monsters and strange creatures who are engaged in a long-running conflict that seems to be running into its climax.

WHO WOULD ENJOY READING IT?
Kids with a love of fantasy and adventure will take to this.

WHAT I LOVE ABOUT IT
The art is unique, however, the story itself seems to be going nowhere. It begins well but lacks coherence from the middle to the end.


The Lost Path by Amélie Fléchais and Jonathan Garnier is available to buy on all major online bookstores. Many thanks to Lion Forge for review copy.

My favorite part of the book was no doubt the beautiful graphics and their own peculiar storytelling. The lovely art style that keeps your eyes on the pages, the aesthetic appeal of the forest and most of all the perception of each character. The characters are very distinct in their voices. 

I adore the sudden splash of color, how pleasing to look at, how it shifted and built the mood of the book. The book remained very atmospheric and whimsical from the beginning to the end and we knew just as much as little as the characters in the book too. The part was a little frustrating for me, I had wished for a little more world-building, a little more peeks at the secretive forest and its inhabitants, and just a bit more of danger hence the 3 stars as I felt the forest had more to tell than was told. 

‘’Once something is in the forest’s clutches, it doesn’t easily let go…’’ 

How very true, the questions and allure of the forest and its spirits will remain with you even after the book has ended. Overall it was a quick and enjoyable read. I finished it in between my study breaks. 

My many thanks to Net Galley and the Publisher for allowing me ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The art style is amazing, visually I was in awe. The story starts out colored and then falls into black and white and then random color panels/pages in between.
The story starts out intriguing, fairy tale like, a dark forest that holds secrets where bad things happened. Then we meet our 3 young MCs who are on a treasure hunt and take a wrong turn somewhere and end up in the dark forest where they have a crazy adventure.
Visually this story is amazing, it starts out strong, and then about half way through it just seems to fall apart. There are hints of a long history, of things in the forest and relationships between those there, but we know none of it. Then the ending just happens. It feels very abrupt and not a very strong conclusion. I’d recommend it as a fun light read for young readers but it’s not a strong recommend from me.

The illustrations were beautiful, weird, and super imaginative.

The storyline though was a bit hard for me to understand. With dialogue boxes left blank, and the mini paragraphs being full of spelling mistakes, I had a hard time understanding what was going on.

I am pretty sure that all of those would be fixed in the final, published copy. But for now, I will give it 3 stars.

I received an eARC in exchange with an honest review.

Amélie's art and illustrations are really gorgeous, magical, and so intricately created that I could stare and marvel at it the whole day. The illustrations vary in style and color from full-colored pages to black and white. The original characters are very interesting and have their own charm. However, the plot is where I'm really disappointed about. It is somewhat disorganized and seems rushed. Some scenes had weird transitions which had me confused at first, especially when the kid pretended to be a robot, but I guess that's how the author interprets the kid's imagination. I wish there was more elaboration to the story because it started with a very solid introduction, but as I read towards the end, everything becomes very disjointed and rushed and a little confusing.

Wow, this was interesting. As a reader who is visually impaired, I'm not normally one to read graphic novels, but when I saw this one available on NetGalley I decided to give it a try since I can zoom into the panels on my computer. I enjoyed the way the story started out, but then everything sort of went all over the place, both with the story and the art. Most of the panels were in black and white, but when we got colored pictures, they were beautiful. There was a different artistic style used when we were reading from the younger boy's imaginative perspective, but there didn't seem to be any reasoning for switching between black and white and color during the rest of the story. There were parts that were a little unclear, but some of it came together at the end. Overall, it was a very cute story.

Thank you NetGalley for sending me this e-arc in exchange for honest review

Art rating: 5 stars
Plot: 2 stars
Characters: 3 stars

It's hard for me to give an exact reason why I didn't like this as much I thought I would. Art is breathtakingly beautiful. I think I would enjoy it a lot more if it was written as illustrated story. Illustrations on cover and at the beginning are fantastical and it's obvious that author is very talented. Somehow this black and white sketches didn't fit the tone of the story for me and I think the full illustrations would be better for this fairy tale type of stories.
The creatures are very original but I fell like it all happened to fast and I didn't get to savor anything and quite frankly it left me confused.
As for characters I'm sad we didn't get to see more of their relationship cause almost whole book they were self absorbed and hardly communicating at all. The younger brother who thought he was a robot was my favorite and I would like to see some of his future adventures.

An interesting and fun read for children :) enjoyed reading this and getting to known the universe.

I received a copy of The Lost Path from NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

The Lost Path is Amelie Flechais’ four graphic novel; the others include The Little Red Wolf, The Mountain Man, and The Warrior Shepherds (which I haven’t read, but I believe is another children’s story). All four stories have actually been translated from French, but you couldn’t tell it when reading. For those curious, The Lost Path is called Chemin perdu in French (and the cover actually fits this title better, I believe).
The Lost Path is about a cursed forest, forest spirits, and the adventure of a lifetime for three young boys. The forest has a dark history, and while we don’t know of the origin, we do get to learn a bit about some of the more recent influences the forest has faced.
Three boys end up inadvertently wondering into the cursed woods while heading out on a scavenger hunt – something typically considered to be a safe activity for children. What follows upon their entrance to the woods can only be considered magical – though not all magic is of the good variety.
The story was interesting, but what really stood out to me was the artwork. It was so unique, and the choices made for storytelling purposes were inspired. I don’t think I’ve seen a graphic novel that changed from full colored images to ink images for the sake of telling a story; but I believe that’s what happened here. It seemed to me that whenever the forest was making a move the artwork suddenly changed to a darker tone, using mostly inks and cross hatching to add in density and lines. Meanwhile the happier moments are full of color and have a lighter, fluffier appearance. It was wonderfully done, and I would very much like to see more of this style.

I really enjoyed Amélie Fléchais's Little Red Wolf and was excited to see this book translated as well. The artwork in this book is absolutely beautiful. The characters are so different and absolutely quirky. The scenery has such detail. But, I was confused throughout this whole book.



It may be that the story just did not make it through the translation process, but I was unsure what exactly was happening for pretty much the whole book. I liked the different perspectives added, but was confused by the robots.



I give this graphic novel a 3/5. The artwork is absolutely gorgeous. The story reminded me of Over the Garden Wall. It's quirky and it confused me.

This book is beautifully illustrated, but unfortunately I couldn't really figure out what was going on plot-wise. The illustrations really are amazing, but it felt like maybe something got lost in translation, or maybe it wasn't really plot heavy in the first place.

Beautiful illustrations with cute, simple story of three boys getting lost in an enchanted forest. I can see my 6 year old grandson enjoying this (probably as much as I did)!

I was so looking forward to reading this graphic novel. Unfortunately, I couldn't read this graphic novel as there were pages missing. Downloaded many time but still the same thing happened. But from the pages that I was able to read, I could say that the illustrations were very beautiful and captivating. Hopefully I would be able to enjoy the story in the future.

2.5 stars

I suppose Stranger Things ruins you for lesser things.

Lost Paths should work so well in theory. The artwork is stunning but quirky and features some beautiful creatures and an interesting bit of self-made mythology.

My problem is the poor way in which the children are portrayed and handled in this graphic novel. There is nothing which them, but not really much right either. They are all bossy and egotistical without the saving grace that a normal child would have. They have
1) No charm or personality and
2) No interpersonal relationships with each other other than shouting and "I told you so".

To be a graphic medium must be rated on both its art and content. In this case, the art saves the day. Lost Paths has some beautiful character and creature design.

I urge the authors to keep making this series. There is real potential here. Focus on developing the characters a bit more and making the plot less muddled and you'd have a great read.

Can't review it if I am unable to read it. If you have a better formatted file that I can download and read, I'd try again. Now most pages are black.