In this review of Sisterhood: A Hyde Street Story #4, Sophie experiences the ultimate case of buyer’s remorse, and Violet takes matters into her own hands.
Sisterhood: A Hyde Street Story #4
Writer: Maytal Zchut
Art and Main Cover: Leila Leiz
Variant Cover: Clara Meath
Page Count: 32 pages
Release Date: October 22, 2025
This review contains spoilers
Sisterhood: A Hyde Street Story #4 start off with Sophie in a jail cell, as Violet tries to explain that she still loves her best friend. But as it turns out, the lengths Sophie is willing to go to for her don’t extend as far as outright murder. After a bit of hesitation, Sophie agrees to speak with the officers about what happened.
But Violet has a vested interest in getting Sophie out of there, and so a couple of Violet-induced blackouts later and Sophie’s in a dumpster, hands covered in blood and now classified as a fugitive. Violet expresses some frustration that Sophie’s not living her life to the fullest (while she’d died while doing so, herself).
Deciding that enough is enough, she makes her way to Sister Hood’s shop to see what she can do to reverse this. But because Sophie and Violet are now bound to each other, the only way to separate them is for the host body to die. Understandably, Sophie’s not entirely enthused about the idea. But Violet sees this as an opportunity to take over.
At the sorority house, Karma and River are discussing the loss of their sisters and the possibility of Sophie being at fault. Violet/Sophie arrives with a canister of gasoline, ready to torch the place once and for all. Sophie is begging Violet not to do it, but Violet’s done listening to her friend.
As she’s pouring the gas, Violet describes to Sophie how her own death felt. River steps outside, and Violet/Sophie attacks her. River, of course, has no idea that Sophie’s not in control and is apologizing for what happened to Violet. Sophie takes control just long enough to tell her to run before Violet takes over again and lights the match.
Which is when Karma stabs her in the back.
Sisterhood: A Hyde Street Story #4 certainly ramps up the intensity. It was clear that the growing conflict between Sophie and Violet was going to come to a head, and holy hot damn, did that come up in this one. Sophie’s ready to exorcise her friend’s spirit from her body by this point. In all fairness, “homicide” is one of those iffy sorts of lines for a friendship. There’s a slight difference between merely helping a best friend hide the body and outright causing the bodies.
When Violet takes over Sophie’s body, “Sophie” seems to carry herself a bit differently. It’s subtle, but it’s like there’s more of a vengeful confidence. More overtly (at least for the reader) is the change to her eyes (from a brown color to more of a purple). But that subtle change in how she moves? Definitely appreciate the artists’ work with that.
I also loved some of the panel compositions in Sisterhood: A Hyde Street Story #4, particularly the framing. At the start, there’s a whole page where the panels are all framed by the bars of the jail cell’s door. The fact that they’d thought about it that way is just awesome. And on another page, the panels aren’t drawn as rectangles on a page, but rather, they’re contained within puddles of water, and I love the way that leads the eye through the page.
The highlight of Sisterhood: A Hyde Street Story #4, though, may be the whole sequence where Violet takes over, plunging Sophie into the same abyss that she’s been in with the deceased sisters. There’s a wonderful flow to the linework, befitting the underwater motif to the whole thing, and it’s gorgeous.
Story-wise, the moment where Violet expresses her frustration about being the one to die (while having wanted to live her life) stood out to me. As a horror fan, a very commonplace scenario I’ve seen is that of teenagers just trying to have some fun, only for them to deal with some sort of horrific punishment (for example, the vengeful and homicidal mother of a kid that’d died at camp due to the counselors’ negligence) in response. Violet is far from the only young woman in a horror story to deal with that sort of unfairness, so having her express frustration over it feels like a response to the age-old trope.
Very curious as to how it’ll all wrap up, given that final page of Karma stabbing Violet/Sophie in the back (and living up to the concept of her name). When Sister Hood mentioned the death of the host body, would it have to be a permanent death, or would being clinically dead for, like, five minutes be an acceptable loophole? At this point, it feels like there’s no salvaging the friendship that was so strong at the beginning. I mean, outright possession and attempted murder/arson don’t really feel like an olive branch.
Final Thoughts
The friendship may be on the rocks, but the story is only getting more intense. With one issue left in this tale, now’s as good a time as any to pick it up.
