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teatales's review against another edition
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Deadnaming, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Transphobia, Animal death, Bullying, Racism, and Violence
wai's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This book makes me so soft, I want to just sink down into its pages. It feels like so long ago to me that a book like this could get published but I am so fucking happy that has changed. I almost cried like a thousand times while reading and I'm just so glad trans kids are getting more and more representation - good, solid representation like this. Plus the mystery is super good too !
Content Warnings
Graphic: Transphobia, Child death, Death, Animal death, and Blood
Moderate: Racism, Cursing, Grief, and Bullying
Minor: Police brutality and Deadnaming
bookiecharm's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Deadnaming, and Transphobia
Minor: Bullying and Child abuse
321zeggy's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
fast-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Blood, and Grief
Minor: Racism, Transphobia, Bullying, and Deadnaming
magicalghoul's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
Ok, so.
What I liked: Wonderful characters, all the love, detail and care put into depicting the latinx diaspora and their traditions, how it built into that for the brujx lore and worldbuilding, THE YEARNING OF IT ALL, and… have I said the characters?
It being an own voices book it's not like I was expecting walking latinx stereotypes, but the fact it went above and beyond in Julian's characterization as a brown boy that everyone reads as a hopeless troublemaker because of his neurodiversity (he has adhd, I can see) was something I especially loved.
It being an own voices book it's not like I was expecting walking latinx stereotypes, but the fact it went above and beyond in Julian's characterization as a brown boy that everyone reads as a hopeless troublemaker because of his neurodiversity (he has adhd, I can see) was something I especially loved.
What I didn't like: Ever since the first clues were dropped I was Really hoping it wasn't going to do what it eventually did— I'm not a fan of outliers being represented as extremists that go through methods considered less ethical to even the ground with those that were born into their abilities/status while the system that's ostracized them in the first place is not put in question. I know the book criticizes the transphobia and gender roles in the brujx community and I'm content with what it did in that regard, but the fact that the question of the treatment of magicless folks born into the brujx community (which is was what caused the main conflict in the first place) was left pretty much only addressed in a couple of lines leaves much to be desired. Yadriel has magic and he's eventually recognized by his family. It seems like we shouldn't care about the other marginalized members of the community.
Aside from that, wonderful read. I'll carry these characters with me for a long time.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Deadnaming, and Transphobia
Minor: Bullying
Mentions of past gang violence.
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