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coolfoolmoon's Reviews (357)
Akwaeke Emezi, the person that you are. You've done it yet again. I can't wait to read all their books. They are truly amazing.
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Biphobia, Deadnaming, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Transphobia, Violence, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Outing, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Dysphoria
Minor: Confinement, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Vomit, Murder, Abandonment
I loved the book and all but it's glaring that she didn't mention the Indigenous people of this area. She does mention white settler colonialism ruining / affecting wildlife and urban sprawl, and mentions how animals reclaimed a little bit of what their lives used to be during 2020 lockdowns, but again, NO mention of the Tongva people. Very weird. Treehugging white liberals seem to always miss that. It's also more than just forgetting people were in LA before us, because she does mention what this beautiful Mediterranean-esque landscape used to look like, and then in the end says people need to learn that we cannot be removed from nature, but never mentions the people who already knew that. For a researcher she's missing a huge part of history.
Graphic: Confinement, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Mental illness
Minor: Animal death
Moderate: Child death, Racism, Classism
The audiobook was performed so well but also the intro from the mom really made me emotional. Then I was like fuck this book is gonna fuck me up too isn't it? And then it did. I didn't cry but you really feel every emotion. A book that can truly be universally understood.
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Ableism, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Death of parent
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Slavery
Graphic: Death, Gore, Misogyny, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Classism
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Homophobia, Antisemitism, Death of parent
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Racism, Abandonment
Minor: Misogyny, Police brutality, Colonisation, Classism
Graphic: Biphobia, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Classism
Minor: Gun violence
Sick and twisted! But the book isn't bad. The best part is the creative writing. Extremely, vividly, wildly creative.
Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Dysphoria
Minor: Racism, Transphobia, Abortion, Abandonment
It's also a good representation of so many things kids will encounter as they get older. Idol worship / fanaticism / religious cults, fascism and political activism against it. What a perfect book! What a perfect book!!!
Unrelated to the book, whenever I get a new pen I always tested it by writing "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." I find out IMMEDIATELY I've been writing the sentence wrong FOR YEARS!!!!! I know there was a time when I wrote it right! What happened!!!
Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Police brutality, Religious bigotry
Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Self harm, Violence, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Deportation, Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Misogyny, Racial slurs, Gaslighting
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Misogyny, Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Homophobia