Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel

Beautiful and masterfully done, very effective too.

A story told through poems isn't something I usually go for but for this particular story it just works.

I actually initially listened to the audiobook version of this and didn't even realise they were written in poem (I did note how poetic the writing was and how beautifully each line was crafted). The audiobook (read by the author himself) came with an interview at the end with Jason Reynolds in which he explained why he wrote it all in poems. This made me go back and read the whole thing in its written form.

Reading the poems and listening to them provide 2 very different experiences but I think both are worth doing. If you have the chance to do both I highly recommend it as it really creates a rounded experience of the text, themes, and tones.