I always like visual renditions of favorite books so when I saw there was a graphic novel of my all time favorite book ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I bought it immediately. I felt that Nancy Butler did a very good job at taking the essential parts of P&P and putting them in a shorter format for the comic while still keeping the feel of the story as a whole. My only real complaint is the artwork. I’ve never been a big fan of american comics, I much prefer the Japanese manga, so the artwork for this was kind of creepy to me. Nearly every panel had a close up of the characters’ faces that was almost grotesque and when they smiled they made me shiver. I expected them to jump out of the page and eat me. Plus, since this was also a five part series put into one whole book (all five covers are shown in the end as a gallery) the artwork begins to change as you get closer to the end. The dark outline lines become fewer and fewer until there’s hardly any outlining at all and the colors begin to soften and smooth into one another. I found the last fifth of the book the best only because the artwork had become so smoothed out that they characters’ faces weren’t nearly as creepy anymore.

So as a whole, this is a great addtition for any P&P fan but don’t expect it to be the greatest visual rendition. I hope someone does a (good) manga version someday. Anyone up to the challange?
Rating: 4 / 5

This is a beautifully drawn rendition of the classic Pride and Prejudice! I won this online and was very excited! It’s the same story, but in graphic novel form. There are some slight changes, but overall Nancy Butler keeps the same classic lines and I just can’t get enough of the illustrations. I highly recommend it for all you Austen lovers!
Rating: 5 / 5

I was very pleased with this comic book style version of P&P. It was true to the book and also true to the 2005 movie. I really loved the cover art made to look like a fashion magazine.
Rating: 5 / 5