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Piper (edition 2017)

by Jay Asher (Author)

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Long ago, in a small village in the middle of a deep, dark forest, there lived a lonely, deaf girl named Maggie. Shunned by her village because of her disability, her only comfort comes from her vivid imagination. Maggie has a gift for inventing stories and dreams of one day finding her fairy-tale love. When Maggie meets the mysterious Piper, it seems that all her wishes are coming true. Spellbound, Maggie falls hard for him and plunges headfirst into his magical world. But as she grows closer to the Piper, Maggie discovers that he has a dark side. The boy of Maggie's dreams might just turn out to be her worst nightmare.… (more)
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Info:Razorbill (2017), 144 pages
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I like the concept. I don't like the depiction of lip reading. I don't like that I often can't be sure which character I'm looking at. I don't like that so very much is left unsaid and it's a lot of work to figure out developments. I don't like the horror. The romance is very YA, as is the ending, and the length. My library has it shelved adult.

I like Browning's ballad much better. But as always I'm open to reinterpretations of all wonder tales.

(Btw, no fairies, not even a fairy tale, the tag misleads.) ( )
  Cheryl_in_CC_NV | Oct 18, 2024 |
Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
  fernandie | Sep 15, 2022 |
Graphic novels aren't really my thing and WOOHOO, THIS BROKE THE STREAK OF ONE-STAR READS IN A ROW I'D BEEN GOING THROUGH!! I'm so happy. (dances) So. I looked at the cover and all its credits. I don't know anything about the work that goes into putting a graphic novel together, but I'm guessing it might be rare for so many specific people to be noted. That made me happy.

The first animations are of trees in the dark with accompanying creepy lettering and text. I was so excited to turn the page. This was a fairly standard romance with a few fantastical features (woo unintentional alliteration!) and from what I gathered, a wonderful retelling of the 1600s German folk tale. One element that was clearly fantasy was the Deaf protagonist Maggie, read lips so clearly and--from what I understand, not very much language can be read clearly on the lips alone, so that kept throwing me off. It was great to have other details in, though. Agnes was wonderful! I was surprised at how invested I was in the story and even though the ending had me sad, it still fit well with what the authors were doing. I'm so glad I read this. ( )
  iszevthere | Jul 11, 2022 |
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Maggie è una ragazza sorda che vive in un villaggio dove molte persone la trattano male proprio per questa sua disabilità. Le piace inventare storie e ha un’immaginazione molto fervida. Quando il suo villaggio viene infestato dai topi e un giovane arriva per risolvere il problema, Maggie se ne innamora; presto, però, scopre un lato più oscuro del pifferaio.

Quando ho visto questo volume in biblioteca, sono stata molto attratta dalla copertina e dal fatto che fosse un retelling di una delle storie dei fratelli Grimm (che, tra l’laltro, prima o poi dovrò leggere). Ho deciso quindi di prenderlo e non me ne sono pentita.

Per quanto riguarda la storia, l’ho trovata molto semplice ma intrigante. Era difficile mettere giù il libro per fare altro e, poi, si legge anche velocemente… Se non si sta fermi a guardare i disegni come ho fatto io! Seguiamo sia Maggie che il Pifferaio, le cui storie sono intrecciate ma il cui comportamento è molto diverso rispetto a coloro che hanno fatto loro del male.

Ovviamente non è una storia avvincente o veloce dal punto di vista della trama: anzi, l’ho trovata molto legata ai personaggi e al loro background, nonché alle loro interazioni. Ovviamente la storia non finisce bene, proprio come la storia dei fratelli Grimm, e mi è dispiaciuto molto per Maggie.

Per quanto riguarda i personaggi, ammetto che mi è piaciuto di più il Pifferaio. Non solo perché è più misterioso e serio rispetto a Maggie, ma anche per ciò che lo spinge a legarsi alla ragazza e la sua storia, che ovviamente non voglio spoilerare.

Maggie è fantasiosa e interessante a suo modo e mi è piaciuta un sacco, ma un po’ meno.

Ciò che traina entrambi è ovviamente la solitudine, che vivono in modo diverso, l’uno con rabbia, l’altra cercando vie d’uscita. È un argomento importante, che viene trattato dagli autori e dall’artista in modo molto espressivo.

Comunque, quello che mi ha attratto davvero sono i disegni, che hanno un tratto molto particolare e adatto ai ragazzi e alla storia, almeno secondo me. Non posso farvi vedere delle tavole perché l’ho già restituito in biblioteca, ma già dalla copertina potete vedere i dettagli e il tipo di disegno.

Nel complesso, un’ottima lettura a cui però manca qualcosa (non so bene cosa) per avere un voto totalmente positivo. ( )
  thereadingpal | Jun 14, 2022 |
I'm probably being too critical, because on the whole this is a perfectly fine pseudo-medieval piece of storytelling, but several of the details got right up my nose.

1: Your main character is Deaf, and explicitly only lip reading, and yet there are multiple scenes in which characters are speaking from behind her and she replies, or speak from the side while not facing her. That's sloppy.

2: Don't try to pass off fiction as history -- and if it really is based off history, do a better job of being really clear what is and isn't. The book opens with a letter about finding details about the real history of Hameln, but because it's also a foil to set the mood for the story, the veracity is super unclear.

3: This is supposed to be a medieval story. The images are fantasy medieval at best, and generic at worst. I don't hate the images, they just seem lazy in the details, and not particularly accurate to time and place. Likewise, the leadership of Hameln in the Middle Ages could give a sh*t about whether the townsfolk believe in them. Would they want to clear out a rat plague? Yes, for productivity reasons. Would they care if the villagers were unhappy? Not likely. And the wedding scene -- totally inaccurate, from the white dress to the ceremony. Argh. Wrong, wrong, wrong. ( )
  jennybeast | Apr 14, 2022 |
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Long ago, in a small village in the middle of a deep, dark forest, there lived a lonely, deaf girl named Maggie. Shunned by her village because of her disability, her only comfort comes from her vivid imagination. Maggie has a gift for inventing stories and dreams of one day finding her fairy-tale love. When Maggie meets the mysterious Piper, it seems that all her wishes are coming true. Spellbound, Maggie falls hard for him and plunges headfirst into his magical world. But as she grows closer to the Piper, Maggie discovers that he has a dark side. The boy of Maggie's dreams might just turn out to be her worst nightmare.

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