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Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body by Megan Milks

6 reviews

rororow's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Not for everyone, I know, but I felt like this book was my teenage experience. Amazingly written and unravels in the most insane way at the end.
It wasn’t mentioned, but to me, Margaret is absolutely coded autistic and it made my relationship to her teenage hood so much stronger.

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mccall17's review

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emotional funny reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Sent me into an absolute spiral of reflecting on my own adolescence and "girlhood" and the deep pains of adolescence for those who don't fit perfectly into it. Couldn't ever predict where it was going next and each new section felt exciting, terrifying, and impossible to tear away from, like a trance. Had to force myself to not read it in one sitting!

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krys_kilz's review

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adventurous dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book is truly a queer and trans treasure. The genre bending twists and turns echo the gender bending/queering of many of the characters and the multiple narration styles mirror the concept of multiple selves.

I absolutely loved the final section, the letter to Carrie. It felt almost like a collection of notes app rambles transformed into musing vignettes. My mind works in a very similar way when I am connecting observations and working through theory. It was drastically different from the rest of the novel, but I loved that sense of jolting. It felt refreshing.

I saw so much of myself in this book and I am incredibly grateful to Milks for creating this fantastical mirror that my young genderqueer self never had.

tw: eating disorders, body shaming, fatphobia

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demo's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book is like if Chuck Palahniuk's Damned and Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit had a trans baby. Palpable resonances with many different texts, some which Milks lists as direct influences in the back matter (e.g. Goosebumps books, Nancy Drew, Matilda, the documentary Thin, Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted, and Judith Butler's work), and others unmentioned (like Ghost World and Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak).

"If adolescence is a passageway, a twilight zone or liminal space, it's also the time when, like thick blobs of gummy dough, we get poured into shape and rise. It's a plastic time, a time of self-discovery and growth, and in some cases tremendous creativity. Teenagehood is that stage when you get to become who you are, or who you can be. Ah, there's the rub: How can you be who you are when—Margaret doesn't know how to finish this question." (p. 99)

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racheloddment's review

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dark hopeful medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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acweber's review

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emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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