I get that they had to condense the story to make it fit for graphic novel format but honestly, if I hadn't of read the book first, I would have been so lost. It seemed like they cut out a little too much and the jumps from one scene to the next were really sudden. As for the art, I thought the artist did a good job of representing the characters the way they were described in the book, even though the actual style of the art wasn't my favorite.