Brenna Thummler – Sheets
I had the opportunity to read and review this through Netgalley and chose to do it 
since I really liked the cover. Also her name is Thummler^^ Sounds like a bad tumbler pun. =)
Blurb
Marjorie Glatt feels like a ghost. A practical thirteen year old in charge of the family laundry business, her daily routine features unforgiving customers, unbearable P.E. classes, and the fastidious Mr. Saubertuck who is committed to destroying everything she’s worked for.
Wendell is a ghost. A boy who lost his life much too young, his daily routine features ineffective death therapy, a sheet-dependent identity, and a dangerous need to seek purpose in the forbidden human world.
When their worlds collide, Marjorie is confronted by unexplainable disasters as Wendell transforms Glatt’s Laundry into his midnight playground, appearing as a mere sheet during the day. While Wendell attempts to create a new afterlife for himself, he unknowingly sabotages the life that Marjorie is struggling to maintain.
Sheets illustrates the determination of a young girl to fight, even when all parts of her world seem to be conspiring against her. It proves that second chances are possible whether life feels over or life is over. But above all, it is a story of the forgiveness and unlikely friendship that can only transpire inside a haunted laundromat.
Opinion
Have you ever seen a sad ghost? Because I have and it breaks my heart that someone forgot him. I read this graphic novel in one go, I was so captivated. Brenna uses beautiful colors and still the panels can show you the depressing boredom, the sad day to day life, making it palpable without words. A skill of show don’t tell that many movie directors don’t have. The main character seems to be multi-dimensional, although there isn’t much description and is unpretentious, but still a fighter. There’s a lot of subtext and room for wonderful interpretations as well as some puns. A simple, heart-warming and tear-inducing story that seems a wonderful fantasy.
Quotes
She died this past spring, and then Dad sort of did, too. He’s still 100% opaque, but slightly less visible.
Kevin will probably get new shoes, right? ‘Cause he has a mom.
Grown-ups are skilled at making terrible things seem great.