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# Blue is the Warmest Color (Blue Angel)

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Blue is the Warmest Color (Blue Angel) : Julie Maroh: desertcart.co.uk: Books

Review: Love and death - I read this superb graphic novel after watching the award winning, controversial film version (which was somewhat disowned by the graphic novel's author Julie Maroh). There are differences, but both book and film are fantastic in their own right. The film is powerful, gripping and emotionally draining, with a magnificent central performance by Adele Exarchopoulos, who was unjustly overlooked for major awards in my view. The GN may be a more subtle pleasure but, in both story and art, it is of comparable excellence. It tells the story of Clementine, a teenaged French girl, eventually coming to terms with her sexuality (she is gay), and of her relationship with the love of her life, the blue-haired Emma, older and more experienced if not wiser. The story is told mostly in flashback, as Emma reads through Clementine's diaries following a tragic event. Past and present are depicted in distinct colour schemes (full but muted colour for the present; sepia tones, apart from one other colour -- blue of course -- for the past). This works really effectively, and the splashes of blue serve to highlight dreams, visions and images that are important to Clementine. In fact, the art throughout is a real strength: deceptively simple, subtle, explicit at times, and always beautifully composed. Maroh has a real talent for conveying characters' emotions through their body language and facial expressions. Unlike a lot of comics art, nothing is exaggerated -- everything looks natural. And the art serves the story perfectly. It is a simple narrative, with little in the way of contrivance or plot, but filled with complex, conflicting emotions. Essentially, we see Clementine as she grows up from uncertain teenager to adulthood, revealing her fears, insecurities and desires to her diary. As it is Clementine's narrative, we do not really get to know many of the other characters that well -- Emma to some extent as the object of Clementine's growing love, Clementine's parents and and some of her friends -- she is such a well-drawn, relatable and sympathetic character that I was completely moved by her struggles and triumphs. Their love affair ends harshly (though not as crushingly as in the film), and although there is a subsequent reconciliation of sorts (more so than in the film), the ending is devastating. This may not be what the reader wants, but it certainly adds to the emotional impact. Overall, a powerful, beautifully illustrated graphic novel, and highly recommended.
Review: Simply beautiful! - Okay, I am going to start off by saying I completed this Graphic Novel at 4 am and read it under 2 hours. That is a sign that this Novel was BRILLIANT. Even though it was only 160 pages long, I am normally not a quick reader at all. In the past when I have made the mistake of watching a movie before I have read the book I have noticed that my imagination is coated by the images I have seen in the film. This was not the case at all, I found the storyline of this Graphic Novel to still be very beautiful, intriguing and interesting. Personal and emotional issues were dealt with so well in this book and it can be seen as a real eye opener for people who have not had to deal with some of the issues mentioned in this story. The way the art was used was just amazing, I loved how when emotions had changed the art reflected that and made it even more interesting for the reader. I do wish that the ending used in the Graphic Novel was used in the movie as it was a lot more emotional and I felt it fitted the story much better. At the end of the movie I found myself getting quite bored and we never got to see Adéle really express her love for Emma the way she did in the novel so that would have been great to see. I don't normally get emotional at novels but this brought tears to my eyes. ​Even though it was a short novel it contained so many different situations but they all flowed together really nicely. The casting for the movie was also good as they matched the characters in the novel perfectly. Plus, every time I watched the movie I would crave Spaghetti Bolognese and the book did not fail to keep up that tradition. Blue is the Warmest Colour has left me with a serious book hangover and I will definitely be adding more of Julie Maroh's books to my TBR list. Without any hesitation I have given this Graphic Novel a Goodreads review of 5 stars!

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 376,819 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 24,211 in Comics & Graphic Novels (Books) |
| Customer reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (1,038) |
| Dimensions  | 17.78 x 0.76 x 25.15 cm |
| Edition  | Mti |
| ISBN-10  | 1551525143 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1551525143 |
| Item weight  | 1.05 kg |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 160 pages |
| Publication date  | 12 Sept. 2013 |
| Publisher  | Arsenal Pulp Press |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Love and death
*by S***N on 25 June 2014*

I read this superb graphic novel after watching the award winning, controversial film version (which was somewhat disowned by the graphic novel's author Julie Maroh). There are differences, but both book and film are fantastic in their own right. The film is powerful, gripping and emotionally draining, with a magnificent central performance by Adele Exarchopoulos, who was unjustly overlooked for major awards in my view. The GN may be a more subtle pleasure but, in both story and art, it is of comparable excellence. It tells the story of Clementine, a teenaged French girl, eventually coming to terms with her sexuality (she is gay), and of her relationship with the love of her life, the blue-haired Emma, older and more experienced if not wiser. The story is told mostly in flashback, as Emma reads through Clementine's diaries following a tragic event. Past and present are depicted in distinct colour schemes (full but muted colour for the present; sepia tones, apart from one other colour -- blue of course -- for the past). This works really effectively, and the splashes of blue serve to highlight dreams, visions and images that are important to Clementine. In fact, the art throughout is a real strength: deceptively simple, subtle, explicit at times, and always beautifully composed. Maroh has a real talent for conveying characters' emotions through their body language and facial expressions. Unlike a lot of comics art, nothing is exaggerated -- everything looks natural. And the art serves the story perfectly. It is a simple narrative, with little in the way of contrivance or plot, but filled with complex, conflicting emotions. Essentially, we see Clementine as she grows up from uncertain teenager to adulthood, revealing her fears, insecurities and desires to her diary. As it is Clementine's narrative, we do not really get to know many of the other characters that well -- Emma to some extent as the object of Clementine's growing love, Clementine's parents and and some of her friends -- she is such a well-drawn, relatable and sympathetic character that I was completely moved by her struggles and triumphs. Their love affair ends harshly (though not as crushingly as in the film), and although there is a subsequent reconciliation of sorts (more so than in the film), the ending is devastating. This may not be what the reader wants, but it certainly adds to the emotional impact. Overall, a powerful, beautifully illustrated graphic novel, and highly recommended.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Simply beautiful!
*by I***H on 11 August 2016*

Okay, I am going to start off by saying I completed this Graphic Novel at 4 am and read it under 2 hours. That is a sign that this Novel was BRILLIANT. Even though it was only 160 pages long, I am normally not a quick reader at all. In the past when I have made the mistake of watching a movie before I have read the book I have noticed that my imagination is coated by the images I have seen in the film. This was not the case at all, I found the storyline of this Graphic Novel to still be very beautiful, intriguing and interesting. Personal and emotional issues were dealt with so well in this book and it can be seen as a real eye opener for people who have not had to deal with some of the issues mentioned in this story. The way the art was used was just amazing, I loved how when emotions had changed the art reflected that and made it even more interesting for the reader. I do wish that the ending used in the Graphic Novel was used in the movie as it was a lot more emotional and I felt it fitted the story much better. At the end of the movie I found myself getting quite bored and we never got to see Adéle really express her love for Emma the way she did in the novel so that would have been great to see. I don't normally get emotional at novels but this brought tears to my eyes. ​Even though it was a short novel it contained so many different situations but they all flowed together really nicely. The casting for the movie was also good as they matched the characters in the novel perfectly. Plus, every time I watched the movie I would crave Spaghetti Bolognese and the book did not fail to keep up that tradition. Blue is the Warmest Colour has left me with a serious book hangover and I will definitely be adding more of Julie Maroh's books to my TBR list. Without any hesitation I have given this Graphic Novel a Goodreads review of 5 stars!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A great read...
*by B***K on 1 August 2014*

After hearing about this everywhere I decided to try it out, I didn't want to rally watch the film as it was apparently disapproved of by the author and some people who'd seen it said it was quite gawdy, I'm a book-girl anyway so.... I do like to buy paper publications for those books I know are picture-heavy, and neither am I a comic book reader, but I decided to try this on my kindle paperwhite due to the price difference. I was aware it will lose some of its visual presence being in black and white and I felt it did lose something in the way of how easy it was to read the dialogue on the kindle but that didn't diminish my enjoyment of the story or indeed the quality of the artwork via my kindle paperwhite. Really refreshing and unique, had me in tears at the end. You read the story as flashbacks of memory from a diary. The story is quite a delicate romance and coming-of-age story about a high-school girl that meets her soulmate who turns out to be a woman and how she deals with the ramifications of that throughout different areas of her life. I'm not generally a romance kind of girl as I find it all quite repetitive but this was really lovely, if quite ... well blue. Read it all in two sittings and that was only as I had to stop to go to work!

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