Family Pets

author: Pat Shand
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2015
rating: 3
read at: 2015/09/18
date added: 2015/09/18
shelves: graphic-novels
review:
'Family Pets' by Pat Shand is a strange tale involving a school of wizardry and a family that gets turned in to pets. It does have one of the weirder love triangles I think I've run across in a book.

Thomasina lives in the basement of her uncle's house with her grandmother. After her parents died, her other family took her in. They are nice enough but sort of disinterested. Thomasina is kind of unnoticed at school too, except by the boy that plays French horn. Thomasina's only friend would seem to be Sebastian, her pet snake.

One morning, she wakes up and everything in her house is strange. Her family has been turned into animals and Sebastian is now a young man. She takes an odd journey to try to set things straight and has to make some choices along the way.

The whole thing is just kind of average. Not a horrible story, but not that great. The art is about average. I've seen better and worse. I liked the characters well enough, but some of them acted a bit inconsistent. The life lessons were good, but it left me unsatisfied at the end. Maybe that was meant to mirror real life, but in such a crazy, often funny story, I wanted a more solid ending.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Diamond Book Distributors, Silver Dragon Books, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.


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