gxuosi's Reviews (390)

sean was so fucking unlikable that it felt like my teeth were grinding to dust as i read. what a chronically horrible person

once again i'm not sure it's fair to rate a book on a scale of 5 when it's literally therapy trauma dump for the author. i did like this more than “milk and honey” by rupi kaur, but marginally so. the author sort of hates himself too much to make poetry where we can sympathize with his plight because in his poetic allegories, he references untenable crimes he attributes to himself and carnal jealousy over rabbits procreating. there were moments where i felt like i saw the author and others where words piled up like a barricade to make me turn away.

i'm not sure it's fair to rate a book on a scale of 5 when this was so very clearly therapy for the author. it's like walking into her therapy session and saying she's bad at speaking. it was however a deeply disappointing book after all the hype it got. the formatting and poetic structure was lacking on most pages where there was nothing more than a sketch and a tumblr quote broken in half by the enter key arbitrarily. there were some pages with poems or prose that had real substance, things i could connect with. i don't know man, i'm just walking away unsatisfied.

i literally have no idea what most of this was and maybe that’s on me but man i could not find the tone, pacing, rhythm, or intent of most of this. it was either so straight forward that there wasn’t anything deeper being alluded to or i was in over my head finding the meaning of 80% of the book. there were some really good moments where i felt like i found the rhythm only to lose it again quickly.

straight up just one of the coolest short story anthologies i’ve read with such a strong through-line and literary voice. powerful girlhood, violence, and survival imbued at times with magical realism.

what a stupid fucking book lmfao. at least it was actually written by a person and not AI tho

the ada's life is a shakespearean tragedy and i am the whole gallery in the theater watching her take a final bow as the ọgbanje try drag her feet out from under her. i watch from every angle as the world tries to unmake her and then i stay for the encore where the ada remakes themself as a whole being.

incredibly strong through-line, but i still managed to lose the plot a few times and was jarred out of the narrative by a couple instances of trans-exclusionary feminism

really lost the plot when there stopped being a ton of piss, as much as i hate to say it

it was literally fine. watch the movie instead.