Scott Pilgrim's Perfect Little Life is the first in a series of graphics novels which focus on Scott's life and his battle against Ramona's evil exes. The graphic novels have recently been turned into a film, which has sparked interest, and for good reason as the novels are well written by author Bryan Lee O'Malley. Currently they can be bought for around £6 on Amazon and I have seen them for this price at stores like Waterstones to.

The story itself focuses around Scott Pilgrim, a normal guy whose life is going relatively good and well, normal. He plays in a band with friends Sex Bob Bomb, while going out with his girlfriend, Knives Chau who is really in love with him. However, all this normal life turns upside down when he meets Ramona Flowers and starts to crush on her. She seems like an ordinary girl at first, but then the massive secret is revealed, if you want to become her boyfriend, you must defeat her 7 deadly exes. Will Scott manage to defeat them? How truly evil are these evil exes? Can a normal guy like himself actually beat these super evil guys?

The characters are well developed within this novel, and described enough for you to get attached to them as characters however leaving enough scope for you to want to learn more about them. There is a wide range of personalities in the novel so all the characters are different making it never boring to read as one of them is always saying or doing something funny.

I'd say that the pace is pretty fast throughout the graphic novels, as I never really put it down when I started reading as action or drama seemed to happen on every page. While it is quite short, they managed to put a lot of effort into making a lot of things happen, and I think that it is a really good book for giving a backstory to Scott and setting the scene for the rest of the series.

The writing is very well done in the novel itself, as not only is it sweet at times but for the most part it is pretty hilarious. Some of the things that the characters say are really funny and believable, as if you could imagine your own friends saying something like that. In fact, I'm pretty sure that some of my friends who own the novels have been quoting them recently.

The art definitely is well done within these novels, as it is drawn like a thick marker pen in black and white. Personally, I find that this style of drawing is much more effective than colour (e.g Walking Dead!) and makes the look of it much more slick. Throughout, the drawings have a good match of being super detailed and then simply just block coloured, which made it look much more nicer than other graphic novels I've read which just put way too much detail in. The cartoony look of the characters really fitted in well with the comic, and made a nice change from some of the graphic novels I've read previously that try really hard to look realistic.

Overall, for the price that this book is offered at, I would definitely recommend it as it is the perfect combination of romance, action and drama. All the characters mesh well to make for a funny storyline that will keep you interested and have you buying the next in the series. A truly well written graphic novel that is pretty unique compared to others around right now.