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Graphic: Death, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Infidelity, Grief
Moderate: Racism, Sexual assault
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Grief
Minor: Gun violence, Racism
📚 Wowowow, THE ECHO WIFE is horrifying and glorious and thorny and beautiful and gross and multilayered.
📚 I love that Gailey writes prickly, even mean women as protagonists, and never apologizes for them.
📚 The book manages to be both action-packed and meditative.
📚 There is so much more going on in this book than your typical domestic thriller. Everything from who counts as people to the right to control your body to should you be held accountable for something your clone did. I think this is Gailey's best book yet.
📚 Some readers are going to reject the ending, but it really worked for me - come talk to me about it once you've read it!
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Suicide, Blood, Medical content
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Blood
📚 Anna is one of the grumpiest heroines I've encountered recently and I loved her.
📚 Intrigued by this idea that the collateral damage of heroes' escapades might not be worth whatever small thing they save.
📚 Would have loved some deeper worldbuilding here. What do non-powered people think of the hero/villain battles? How do heroes affect international relations? How did the draft system come to be?
📚 The premise of this book - that hero antics take away valuable lifeyears from henches and bystanders - comes REAL close to saying that a disabled person's life is worth less. It doesn't outright say it, and a lot of it comes from Anna's own workaholic tendencies. I guess I feel like this book could have been partly about how capitalism is ableism but didn’t quite take that plunge.
Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma
Graphic: Child death, Death, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Grief
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Graphic: Death, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Deadnaming, Drug use, Gore, Incest, Self harm, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Blood
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping
Minor: Rape
📚 Whew, this is one of those books that's hard to read and yet impossible to put down.
📚 I feel like I could spend forever unpacking the many layers of power and control and submission in this book and all the ways we encounter those forces - food, family, sex, religion, and more.
📚 Okay, I really thought I could write a coherent review for this book but I can't. It's strange and wonderful, dreamlike and horribly realistic, beautiful and gross, comforting and terrifying. I can't wait to read more of Broder's work.
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Content warnings: biphobia, body shaming, eating disorder, emotional abuse, fatphobia, homophobia, religious bigotry, and self harm.
Graphic: Biphobia, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Self harm, Religious bigotry