Review: Splendid Cities

Splendid Cities
Splendid Cities by Rosie Goodwin and Alice Chadwick

This is one of those new adult coloring books that are very popular right now.  I received Splendid Cities by Rosie Goodwin and Alice Chadwick.  My oldest daughter and I have been coloring a page together.  I took the right side and my daughter, 7 years-old, too the left side.

Splendid Cities Coloring
Splendid Cities Coloring

We had a great time coloring.  We only ran into one problem.  The center of the book, at the spine is hard to color, but I think this would be the same problem with any of these new coloring books.

Lost Ocean Cover
Lost Ocean by Johanna Basford

Lost Ocean by Johanna Basford is another one of these type of books.  I hope to get this one next, however, I’m not sure I’ll be doing that for a long time as Splendid Cities is a very large book and the coloring takes a long time because of all the detail.  It is calming.  I remember looking for adult coloring books long before this recent trend, say 8 years ago.  There really wasn’t anything on the market at that time.  I’m glad we have books like these now as it gives me something more challenging to color and I get to enjoy it with my daughter.

Lost Ocean Foldout Pages
Lost Ocean Foldout Pages

I’m not going to count this towards my 100 books read goal for the year, it is not reading after all.