Review – My Heart in Braille

My Heart in Brailleby Joris Chamblain, Pascal Ruter, Anne-Lise NalinGenres: Graphic Novels, Young Adult Pages: 74 Rating: Synopsis: Victor loves vintage cars and belting out songs in his garage band, but school is harder for him and he seems to always say the wrong thing. When he meets the cello-playing, straight-A student Marie-Jo, the two strike up an unlikely friendship, and before long both his grades and his attitude improve. But when Marie-Jo confesses a terrible secret to him, Victor will have to return the favor and do a little rescuing of his own. There’s some pretty art in Joris Chamberlain’s My Heart in Braille, but I didn’t really think much of the story. I gather it’s actually based on a novel, which might make more sense of it; it didn’t really feel like it’d been written/structured to be a graphic novel to begin with. Overall, it feels like there’s some lacking context for the characters and like certain aspects of the story just get totally dropped, or elided. There…