wlwism's Reviews (71)

BOOOOOOOOOOO

Raw and heart shatteringly human, I’m glad my mom died navigates some of the most shocking parental behaviors i’ve ever encountered, and the road that stemmed from it all. Jennette has a way of putting you in her shoes: her pain and her healing belong to the reader, too, and you cannot help but feel it all to the core.
I’m glad your mom died too <3

Violently sobbing at a children’s book DHMU.

Okay serious review now: I think it’s a universal disabled experience, especially when you’re younger , to find yourself wishing for normalcy; finding that explored in a book and my own childhood feelings so accurately mirrored shook me to the core in the best way. A beautiful beautiful exploration of disability , family and friendship, I can’t recommend this enough, disabled or not

Brilliant Carmen Machado uses a trope based narrative to take the reader through her experience with domestic violence as a queer woman. Borrowing from assorted media, including a Choose your own adventure type segment, she navigates the complexity of it all with the biggest of graces

DNF. I wanted to like this book. i was rooting for this book. However , the dynamic of this is further from enemies to lovers and closer to one sided rivalry, edging on bully/victim to lovers. Not all the shade against white people can get me to sympathize with that. and trust me, i tried. congrats to emery lee on getting the easiest to impress person ever to drop a book by creating the most unlikeable, flat protagonist to walk this earth.

Adding this one to the reads ig? I know these are meant for a younger audience but they have some SICK body horror potential. only docking a star because the ED elements in “to be beautiful “ felt wildly unnecessary