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- THE POISONS WE DRINK is a dark story, full of characters overflowing with rage and love, fighting against a system designed to eliminate them.
- I loved the world Baptiste built here. There’s a complex magic system that promises real rewards and major consequences. It’s also set in DC, which I love, and you can tell Baptiste has true familiarity with the city.
- There was so much going on in this book that it was often too much - the interpersonal relationships and politics became a bit confusing as the layers of treachery built, and it was a bit overly long for me in the portion in the middle where Venus was uncovering secrets.
- Still, I am excited to see where Baptiste goes as an author, since POISONS is stuffed full of unique and exciting ideas.
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Sexual content
Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail
- THE FALL OF WHIT RIVERA is for all the cozy autumn lovers, for enemies to lovers lovers, and for everybody rooting for love.
- This book is a PSL for your brain. It’s filled with the most loving friends and family characters you’ll ever seen, every one of them supporting each other and openly showing how much they care.
- Whitney also has PCOS, which isn’t the central point of the plot but is certainly a major part of it. I appreciated that her chronic illness didn’t fade into the background as the book went on - in fact, she missed some really major events due to health crises. And this story shows beautifully how people can show up for their chronically ill loved ones.
Graphic: Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Blood, Medical content
Minor: Abandonment
Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Drug abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Blood, Vomit, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
- This book is beautifully written, expertly plotted, and a completely horrifying experience in multiple ways.
- Due drew on historical accounts and the history of her own family to write this book, and it shows. It often felt like I was reading a firsthand account of these terrible events, even when the supernatural elements were woven in.
Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Islamophobia, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol
Moderate: Rape, Slavery
Minor: Antisemitism
Graphic: Cursing, Fatphobia, Alcohol
Moderate: Racism, Sexual content
Minor: Biphobia
Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Minor: Sexual content
- I knew Orange would break my heart with WANDERING STARS, and he sure did.
- Orange expands on the legacy of colonization and the generational traumas that stem from it, showing different ways they manifested throughout the decades.
- Orange’s writing is so gorgeous, the kind of writing that you can’t imagine being done any other way.
- I reread THERE THERE immediately before this one, and am happy to report that the anti-fat bias in the first book is almost entirely gone.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Rape
- LORE OF THE WILDS immediately drew me in. I was an instant fan of Lore and her will to survive and fight. I found the world of this book intriguing. Books about fae are numerous now, but this one found that line between terrifying and alluring perfectly.
- I thought when picking this up that it was a YA novel, and the tone of it reads that way, especially in the beginning. Then, about 75% in, things turn very spicy and very dark, and oh wait Lore isn’t the teenager I thought she was? It was a bit jarring.
- I’m gonna try to do this bit without spoilers. There was a character whose motivations I absolutely could not figure out until it dawned on me that this was part of a plot twist. So that unfortunately wasn’t much of a twist for me, and I wish there had been a better effort at hiding it.
- All that said, I’m looking forward to book two and I think Sbrana is an author to watch.
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Alcoholism, Sexual violence