ARC Copy...I have a feeling I should have read an Enola Holmes story first but feel I didn't need to, the graphic narrative very much show Enola is a good, smart detective all on her own some. Did love the gorgeous bright water colour art style and nice nice in the notebook epilogue portraying Victorian social tidbits and secret code how tos.

I adore the original Sherlock tales so much that I’ve also read and enjoyed many of the spin-offs and reimaginings! The Nancy Springer series about Enola Holmes was a lot of fun to read, so I was excited about the graphic novels as a way to encourage some of my more reticent students to engage in reading. The graphic novel is a lot of fun and has vibrantly colorful illustrations! I especially loved the graphics at the end that look to be pages from Enola’s notebook! I’ll definitely be purchasing the physical copy for my classroom once it’s released.

I have seen the movie on Netflix and I have enjoyed it very much. I love puzzles and a good mystery so the movie provided everything I needed, and this is also the case with this graphic novel. I enjoyed reading more about Enola, a strong, smart and witty character. I recommend this novel.

This is perfect for enjoying with the kids especially after we have read and seen the TV movie. I highly recommend it for any family to watch

Very grateful to the publisher for my review copy

Throughout the novel Enola is a strong willed, intelligent, and fiery young woman. When her mother suddenly disappears on Ebola’s 14th birthday she first calls her infamous brothers Sherlock and Mycroft for help, but when they dismiss her she sets off on her own. During the search for her mother Enola solves many mysteries in London, including the disappearance of Dr. John Watson, and always manages to stay a step ahead of her brothers. I totally recommend this book to anyone who was a fan of the netflix hit, or young readers looking for a strong female character to look up to.

Hmm. This is a perplexing one. There were some parts that confused me, actual frames that I didn’t understand what was going on in the drawing. A couple times it felt like clues were passed over too quickly that I kind of missed it and had to go back and reread it. I love the story of Enola Holmes, but this version really makes Sherlock look as awful as Mycroft. And I love Sherlock. He seemed not only cocky but mean and completely discompassionate of either Enola and their mother. Also the timeframe kind of confused me because it was all carriages and corsets but then a journal entry talked about “New Years resolutions” which I’m pretty sure is a modern idea.
Also, too agenda-y for me. Yes it was old fashioned and antiquated for women to wear corsets and only dresses. But multiple times she makes a big deal about how men should be able to wear dresses and women should be able to dress like men. And one female character wears a bear while dressed like a man (for fun not just as a disguise) and Enola says, I don’t understand what’s wrong with that.
Hmm. A little too much for a young graphic novel in my opinion.
This one just wasn’t as good as I was hoping.

I've only read one of the Enola Holmes books (The Black Barrouche - also from NetGalley) but as soon as I saw this as a Read Now I had to read it. First off the art in this is lovely! I love the style and the colours, it really stands out from a lot of other graphic novels. I can't speak for how these adapt the original novels (which I really need to read and wish I had when I was a kid because this likely would have been one of my favourite series) but on it's on it's really enjoyable!

Enola is very likable and I appreciate how she stands apart from her brothers. She's smart in her own right and really doesn't need either of them. The mysteries themselves are interesting as well and I liked how Enola solved them. I also like how she subverts what a lady is expected to be like while also at times using her age and gender to her advantage as people would never suspect her being a detective.

The reason I hesitate in giving this a higher rating is because I wish this adapted just one of the mysteries so we could go into more depth. They felt very short and while I understand sometimes it's hard to adapt a full novel into a graphic novel of equal length I just wanted more. I'm definitely going to read the books but as much as I loved this it kind of left me wanting.

I loved this abbreviated adaptation of the Enola Holmes novels. The illustrations were like wonderfully bright watercolor paintings. They made the story pop. The graphic novel was easy to follow and had a nice flow.

If you are not familiar to Enola’s adventures, I would suggest picking up this series. It is fun, engaging and a delight to read.

I want to thank NetGalley, Serena Blasco and Andrews McMeel Publishing for the e-ARC of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are honest, my own and left voluntarily.

This is a great adaptation of the Enola Holmes novels into a graphic form. They are so visually interesting! The illustrations will really help younger readers picture things like corsets and the different flowers used as messages. These books also really boil down the stories to their essentials and highlight the plight of women at the time, with no legal standing.

Do I like Enola more than Sherlock? Is that even possible?

I first discovered Enola during the Netflix series and these graphic novels just provide more fun and more things to love about Enola.

If you’re looking for a fun graphic novel with a strong female heroine, these fit the bill!

I am so, so, so glad I recieved an advance reading of this collection from Andrews McMeek Publishing.

I find the main character really endearing and quite the person I would love to know anytime.

The artstyle. Don't you ever doubt about it when you pick up this graphic novel series. It6 heavenly. What's more? The emotions present in the artwork is phenomenal.

The plot focuses on themes like gender discrimination, women judging women harshly and how men see women/young girls as beings who cannot take their own decisions or perform a task meant for men/boys.

I find the plot really well structured and well presented.

I find the character development quite distinct and evolving with each book.

Go for this series without a doubt. I am still surprised.

4.5 stars
I absolutely loved this graphic novel! There were 3 separate cases told in this book, with The Case of the Missing Marquess being a part of the Netflix movie. My Enola Holmes experience is limited to the movie and reading Enola Holmes and the Black Brouche. It's easy to be transported into Enola's world no matter how much you have read or seen.
This graphic novel does start at the beginning where Enola's mom disappears. Each separate part packs the entire case into a small amount of pages, but the whole thing is there. A lot of the time I feel like graphic novels lose a lot being (usually) short and not having a lot of words, but this one really did a great job of having the whole story in all 3 cases.
I absolutely loved the art style. It was beautiful. It was almost like a watercolor, especially in the backgrounds. There were also Enola's notebook pages in between the cases which I found really cool. It kind of showed pictures and Enola's notes and newspaper clippings and I thought that was a really interactive addition to the book.
I'm really excited to continue reading the Enola Holmes novels and I can't wait for another graphic novel addition!

#netgalleyarc I’ve never read the original books and I haven’t seen the Netflix show, but I really enjoyed these stories. The illustrations in this book were great. It’s great to read mystery stories where the lead character is a young girl and not an old uptight man. I will definitely be purchasing this tile for my high school library.

Step aside, Sherlock! Enola Holmes, the famous detective’s brilliant and strong-willed younger sister, takes centre stage in this vibrant and delightfully drawn graphic novel adaptation of the first three volumes of Nancy Springer’s bestselling mystery series.

When fourteen-year-old Enola wakes on her birthday, she discovers that her mother has disappeared from the family’s country manor, leaving only a collection of flowers and a coded message book. With Mycroft (awful) and Sherlock (who also have some backward ideas but is not as awful) determined to ship her off to a boarding school, Enola escapes and decides to investigate their mother disappearance on her own. But nothing prepares her for what lies ahead.

Before going any further, I have to summarize my feelings. I absolutely love the artwork and plan on buying the book just for the pleasure of looking at and feeling the pages (to all the beautiful pinks and purples!). The top-notch watercolour illustrations and the palette chosen is both dreamy and whimsical, and I enjoyed seeing the excerpts from Enola's secret notebook at the end of each volume, particularly because of all of the extra drawings. But as I got to the end of the book, I felt like the story lacked some depth.

The premise is great, and I got excited, especially because of how the different clues Enola finds are displayed, and how she uses botany and secret codes to find them and also send messages to her mother. But the episodes are rather short and sometimes the mysteries were solved too quickly, with some pretty far-fetched conclusions to tie it up. It probably kept the essence of the books quite well, though. For me, it was too fast-paced to be immersive.

About the main character, I only have one word to say: AWESOME. Well, that’s a lie, she’s awesome indeed, but I should probably explain why. Enola is just not the average girl. She loves mysteries, knowledge and freedom, reads about Max and is a badass feminist. Commentary on living as a woman in Victorian times abounds. Corsets? That’s a deathtrap! But she finds a positive and useful use for wearing the torture device… And there’s more, so much more. I’m already expecting a sequel.

Thank you to NetGalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for providing me with an eARC in exchange for my honest review.

I really enjoyed this! I'd previously read the first Enola Holmes book and really enjoyed it, and it was fun to revisit and then follow the story of the next two.

The watercolor style was playful and expressive, giving Enola Holmes plenty of personality. It fit really well with her exuberant and determined character. I liked how the color scheme changed to fit the mood of the story, and the expressiveness of each character's design.

The storyline was easy to follow and hit all the main points of the plot. I enjoyed seeing the excerpts from Enola's notebook at the end of each volume.

I will look forward to future volumes and following Enola's adventures.

*Thanks to NetGalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for providing an e-arc for review.

If you are familiar with Sherlock Holmes series, then this book is definitely for you. Such a fun, engaging book to read. I love all the details about this book and easy to read too. Only took me about 1 day to finish reading this book.

This book collects the first three graphic novels of the first three original novels in this series, and I had to work out whether that was because they were wonderful, or because Netflix, or because they were, well, cheap to reprint. It took some years before these came out in the original French, so was the source that great, when they didn't seem as urgently produced as some books you'd care to think of? Well, the first story is slightly ungainly, in that it has to set the scene and build the world, and then divert to a completely different case. Enola is abandoned on her birthday by her mother, so sends for her older brothers, long absent from the household, to work out why. They fail but she still aspires to follow in their brainbox ways and solve the case for herself – all until she learns of a missing aristocratic lad, that is.

The second novel continues with the mother absent, but the girl's burgeoning expertise in disguises and codes (not bad for a fourteen year old) means she feels capable of working on that case and that of another missing member of a high society family. Luckily the mentions of her managing to do things with her youth and gender the police can't aren't as heavy-handed as all the talk of corsets being confining. The pattern is more or less completely confirmed with the third tale, but at least the person gone missing is more interesting here. The pattern includes painted art that I didn't quite favour with, a style to the text that in translation at least seemed old-fashioned and a touch verbose but never felt like Conan Doyle, and a bit of a plodding nature at times, but nothing too off-putting. The stage design at least has a lot of life.

There, and not a pointless reference to a certain OMD song in sight. Mother would be proud.

Note: Thank you to Andrews McMeel Publishing for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Rating: 3.5 stars (rounded up to 4)
I feel a little indifferent to this graphic novel after just finishing it. Of course the artwork was absolutely gorgeous and I loved the mysteries, especially the first episode involving Lord Tewkesbury which was a lovely graphic novel rendering of the Netflix movie (made me want to watch it again!) Enola Holmes is simply one of my favorite female characters, so every single time I read something including her I get super excited. The author did a lovely job of capturing her voice, especially through the journal entries after each episode. I loved all the little notes and disguises Enola used throughout all the episodes, as well as the overarching plot of finding her mother. With each episode, I enjoyed reading through the different clues Enola found and her use of botany to interpret them.

That being said, I did find each episode lacked a lot of depth. At some points I felt lost and confused with how each mystery tied up as there was very little context to a lot of the history/plot progressions. I wish I had seen just a bit more explanation of the mysteries, or maybe more depth to the stories. As each one was in episode format, it makes sense that each character was sort of one dimensional and temporary, but I would have loved to see less focus on making the mysteries super elaborate, and more focus on the depth of the mystery and the context around it. I found this especially with the third episode, as it ended in a rather abrupt way and didn't seem to contribute much to the story except to provide another example of Enola solving a mystery. I look forward to future installments of this series, but hope to see more focus on the quality of the story, rather than the quantity of different elements to add to the mystery.

Overall, excited to follow along with Enola's mysteries in the next episodes!

Cute, beautiful pictures and cute story. I highly recommend if you want a fast read. I love the movie and this HQ is not different, I would also be a great present for a mid grade.