Book Review
Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Crystal Chan (Goodreads Author) (Adapted by), Kuma Chan (Art by), Mark Twain, Jeannie Lee (Lettering)
Genre: Manga/Classics
Rating: DNF
Review: In the opening of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn we are introduced to Huck Finn in the mid-1800’s in Missouri, USA. Huck is living with a widow and her old maid friend who have taken Huck in away from his father. Huck is a very smart boy as he hides his money with a friend after his father comes snooping around. While people protect him, his father kidnaps him and holds him, prisoner, beating him on a regular basis. After a while, Huck has had enough and fakes his death and sets off in a boat down the river, but along the way, he bumps into his friend Jim a black man who worked for the widow he lived with.
As we approach the ¼ mark in the novel, Huck and Jim travel together as both have run away for different reasons, but a prank gone wrong sees Jim bitten by a rattlesnake and it takes him 4 days to recover. In order to get more food and information, Huck disguises himself as a girl and heads into the town before they set off on their raft again. He learns that Jim has been named as his murderer as he ran away the night that Huck faked his death and he can’t come out and clear his friend’s name as it would give away his whole plan of running away and starting a new life.
Shortly before the halfway mark, I had to, unfortunately, DNF this manga classics. I didn’t want to do it as I was enjoying the art style, but I couldn’t follow the story at all, it was all over the place and it seems liked nothing was happening. This is probably due to the source material, but the style of language used throughout the novel and the use of derogatory terms really put me off. While I recommend all the other manga classics published by Udon Entertainment I really didn’t like this one.
I received this review copy from NetGalley
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