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The Outside Circle written by Patti LaBoucane-Benson

Art By Kelly Mellings

This book tells a story of reconciliation, relating to your heritage and where you came from some of the main characters are Joey Carver, Pete Carver and others this book acknowledges indigenous people and their struggles with addiction racism and abuse from others Joey and Pete come from a teenage mother who had no support and grew up with different step fathers with no knowledge of who their real father is. Pete proceeded to start becoming involved within more and more gang activity. Pete proceeded to be placed under arrested for shooting his stepfather for attempting to kill him and harm his mother after they sold all of their belongings at a pawn shop. After being sentenced to Edmonton Maximum Security Prison Pete gets jumped by a rival prison gang after being told to shank a new inmate that attacked one of their members and he got beaten up severely Pete gets sent to the medical ward there he meets a woman named Mona. Who is Pete's parole officer it is here that Pete gets the offer to be transferred to Drumheller Medium Security Prison, Pete immediately agrees to Mona's offer where Pete can participate in a program called " In Search Of Your Warrior" after being transferred to the Stan Daniels Healing Centre Pete meets an elderly woman named Violet who is leading them through the Warrior Program they begin with a purification smudge to officially start the Warrior Program.

I really like this book because it tells a story of love, hate, anger, pain, greif, heritage and reconciliation I find this book very good because it has a very good amount of plot with the character development events within the story. The art which was done by Kelly Mellings is beautiful work for a graphic novel because you are able to see that if you pay close enough attention to some of the art you will notice the beautiful levels of detail that Kelly Mellings has put into this book.

Book Title: The Outside Circle

Author: Patti Laboucane-Benson

illustration: Kelly Mellings

Genre: Graphic Novel, Fiction

Pages: Onehundred Thirty

Enjoyment: Ten out of Ten

Published: 2015

Age Group: Sixteen and up

Reccomendations: Yes I would highly reccoment this book to anybody who wants a kind of short graphic novel and someone who wants a good book to read.

Overall Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Six out of five stars in my opinon.