Review: The Kite Runner Graphic Novel by Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner Graphic Novel by Khaled Hosseini
Illustrated by Fabio Celoni and Mirka Andolfo
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I thought this was excellent.  This is not your typical "comic" book.  I say that because my son asked me why I was reading a comic book when he saw my kindle  lying on the table yesterday, then proceeded to tell me about a comic he read at school.  The content is very adult and not whimsical at all if you don't know what this story is about.  It is very heavy and serious.

I am participating in a reading challenge and one of the prompts is "A book with pictures."  While browsing my library's digital media collection for graphic novels this popped up, and as I've been meaning to read this for quite some time and it was available I grabbed it. I'm so glad I did. I think the illustrations portrayed what the words would have, had you read the novel, which I'll be doing soon. My library is having a book sale that started the other day, so I picked up the full novel as I was so drawn in by this telling. This story is so heartbreaking. It tells the story of Hassan and Amir and the struggles they faced. The story takes place in Afghanistan prior to the Russian occupation and then afterwards when the Taliban takes up residence.  I think alot of the terrible things that happen to them are compressed in this version, but that's what you get in this format.  I'm hoping to get more out of the full novel because as soon as you start to get into the story it changes.  It was a very quick read, so for challenge purposes or book-a-thon reading I'd highly recommend it.

I did have a hard time keeping track of which character was which throughout the story. Some of the characters look very similar in their rendering, while others are very distinct. Later in the book it is a bit easier to tell them apart because only one specific character is present in the storyline.

Overall, my heart broke several times during the story, and it has inspired me to read the full novel and delve more into the world of graphic novels.


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