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Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Minor: Racism
Graphic: Ableism, Death, Racism, Sexism, Colonisation, War, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic
Graphic: Death, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Grief
Moderate: Hate crime, Colonisation
Minor: Torture, War
- Liontas uses a variety of writing styles in this book, including a stream of consciousness like style that puts the reader right into what her mind feels like while recovering from a concussion.
- The section that stuck out most to me was the discussion of the cycle of brain injury and incarceration. It feels ridiculous to say I’d never thought about it before, but I hadn’t, even though it seems obvious in retrospect.
- Liontas writes about not only what it is like to have this chronic pain and illness, but to be a queer woman with this condition, and a queer woman with a legacy of trauma from her mother’s addiction.
Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Cursing, Medical content, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Sexual content, Alcohol
Graphic: Death, Racism, Xenophobia, Blood, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Minor: Addiction
Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
- A TEMPEST OF TEA is the best kind of heist story. Set in a fantasy world, a ragtag crew comes together, each with their own motives (and desires).
- I love the characters Faizal has created. Everyone has an agenda, but they come to care for each other, sometimes to their own detriment.
- And the action! I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough. I cannot wait for the second book.
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Racism
- Wow, y’all! CONDITIONS OF A HEART totally knocked me out. I enjoyed Mangle’s first book, but this one is on another level.
- I loved Brynn and her family, who all felt like real people each trying to do what they thought was best.
- Brynn is a fantastic protagonist, with a snarky inner monologue and a huge knot of complicated feelings to work through. It’s rare to see a novel unpick so many aspects of having a chronic disability, and this book tackles so much while still remaining a engaging read brimming with love.
- On top of the discussions of disability, the book also deals with classism and generational privilege and power. Also, quite importantly, there’s a cat cafe!
Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic
- THIS DAY CHANGES EVERYTHING is basically "eeee so cute!" in book form. I loved everything about it, from the queerness to the band nerdery to the running around NYC landmarks hoping for magic. It's beautiful queer joy wrapped in a book.
- I love that Abby and Leo are allowed to be grumpy and touchy, that they can feel both joy and frustration.
- It's also great to see a YA novel where the queer characters are still figuring themselves out: trying to find the right label, or decide that labels might not even be necessary at all.
Graphic: Homophobia, Transphobia
Minor: Deadnaming, Vomit