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billyjepma's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Medical content, Classism, and Cursing
Minor: Gun violence, Stalking, and Mass/school shootings
helhas3letters's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Death of parent, Medical content, Misogyny, and Grief
Moderate: Alcohol, Cancer, Chronic illness, Sexual content, Death, and Racism
Minor: Blood, Classism, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Police brutality, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Pregnancy
dramaqueentears's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
All in all, Danielle Evans can tell an enthralling story. The plot is there. I didn’t think the characters were developed enough, or maybe the plot was told in a removed way? Either way, something felt lacking to me in the short stories. Definitely thought provoking though. The ones that have me thinking are “Boys Go to Jupiter,” a story about a white girl who is harassed online for wearing a Confederate flag bathing suit, and “Why Won’t Women Say What They Want?,” a story about an artist who was emotionally abusive to several women in various relationships who turns his apologies to each of them into an art exhibit. The other short stories to me were just forgettable.
HOWEVER. I’ve been raving all day about the novella, “The Office of Historical Corrections.” The plot reminds me of The Vanishing Half, but I like the author’s creation of the Institute of Public History, a fictional government agency that works to correct historical inaccuracies. I love the dynamic between Cassie and Genie. Cassie works for the agency to go along to get along, whereas Genie gets pushed out because telling the “truth” about America’s treatment of Black people with no analysis isn’t enough for her. I could have read a whole book about the two of them.
Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Death, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Police brutality
cheye13's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
★★★★★|Why Won't Women Just Say What They Want; Anything Could Disappear; The Office of Historical Corrections
★★★★|Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain; Boys Go To Jupiter
★★★|Happily Ever After; Alcatraz
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Alcohol, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical content, Racial slurs, Toxic friendship, Violence, Cancer, Confinement, Suicide, and Abandonment
Minor: Infidelity, Mass/school shootings, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual content
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