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caseythereader's reviews
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Graphic: Child death, Death, Murder
Moderate: Miscarriage, Sexual assault
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Sexual content
Graphic: Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Blood, Medical content, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Death, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic
Graphic: Cursing, Alcohol
Moderate: Sexual content
- Hooray, a new Mossa and Pleiti story! If you aren’t reading this series, you are missing out. Cozy mysteries set at universities on Jupiter solved by a sapphic pair, what’s not to love?
- Mossa and Pleiti are separate for much of this book, leaving Pleiti to try to do the sleuthing herself. That, along with a trip to a different platform, made this installment feel like a major expansion of the world.
- I can’t discuss plot too much without giving things away, so I’ll just say please pick up this series so we can get many more of them!
Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
- In THE DRY SEASON, Febos combines her personal journey with the stories of women throughout history, both celibate and relationship-driven. It gave me new context for the history of women taking control of their own bodies and lives.
- I am unequipped to talk about the beauty of Febos’ writing. She has such a gift for words, and I found myself counting down time until I could pick up the again.
- I know this is a book about being voluntarily celibate, but it felt strange to me to never discuss asexuality and aromanticism. Febos talks at length about how she has more brain space available for creativity, about how she suddenly notices how every movie is about romantic relationships, and she even reads Octavia Butler’s journals about not wanting to be bothered with relationships, and...nothing. Only a throwaway line about her many “asexual friendships” with women.
Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Alcohol, Sexual harassment
- I am so into the premise of NEEDY LITTLE THINGS. Sariyah’s ability to hear needs is something I don’t think I’ve ever come across before in a novel, and I loved how Desamours showed the good and bad sides of it.
- Sariyah’s friends and family were all fantastic characters as well. It was enough characters to make the world feel real without being too many people to keep track of.
- I do think it repeated a bit in the middle - one or two too many “let’s go over the suspects again” scenes - but the final confrontation had me on the edge of me seat.
Graphic: Chronic illness, Infidelity, Mental illness, Racism, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Drug use