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Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
1.0

This book is weirdly written with bizarre characters and with more "hidden imagery" than it knows what to do with. I struggled to get through this as the writing is convoluted and seems to be trying to be cool and innovative in way that just makes me want to put the book down.

A retelling of Snow White, this is not. Beyond having a character named Snow and more mirror imagery than a funhouse, there is very little to do the tale of Snow White at all.

The characters are weird, the situations the author puts them in are strange and not realistic, and the dialogue and thoughts are straight up ridiculous.

And then on top of all of that, the author had the nerve to take a complete left turn and surprise us with a Transphobic ending that literally came out of no where.

Throw the whole book away. I would not ever read another book by this author.