Before this book, I didn't have much interest in colouring. My Wife had started colouring, colour by numbers on her TikTok channel, and supported her, and then she purchased this book for me.
And now I have 6 colour by numbers books. But let's talk about this Pokémon book shall we. 50 images to colour, some of them are double pages, (unless you've done a poster) they're huge.
As of writing this, I've completed 8 pages in this book, 7 of which I've really enjoyed doing. Wobbuffet for me, just had too much of a single colour, which was a little tedious. All the others had incredible backgrounds, and a bit more detail in the characters. But honestly, the backgrounds are what this book is about, they're incredible. They offer a lot of opportunity to get a little creative and make each piece your own as well.
With this being one of the newer books, white areas now no longer have the patterns going through them, which gives you the opportunity to not have to colour them in, unless you want to make them pop a little more.
What I also like about this colour by numbers book, is the colour charts - apart from double pages - they give you a separate page next to each image to try matching different colours, and a little space to write your chosen colour code, I've not come across another colour by numbers book that has this yet. But it's a really nice feature.
Possibly the only downside is, I do feel pressured to makesure the colour codes for the characters is accurate, as Pokémon are fairly recognisable and would be instantly able to spot an "inaccurate" colour.
Pokémon Colour By Numbers Book Review Breakdown
4.8/5
Pages
With 50 images to colour, there's plenty to do, whilst it's less than some of the other books, I'm glad they reduced the amount of images for this book and concentrated on creating truly incredible images.
4.8/5
Variety
50 images is a lot to colour, especially with the detail on each image, but with that, there's a good variety of Pokémon to colour, a couple have multiple images, like Pikachu and Eevee, but even they're very different images.
5/5
Features
Now I've experienced the per page colour chart, it's difficult to go to a colouring book without it. Key feature: It has Pokémon!
4.9/5
Final verdict
Overall, a great book, possibly not the best for beginners as there are pages with a lot of detail, but I did manage, and have enjoyed most of what I've coloured so far.