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Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley

39 reviews

caitmayi's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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flykites's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

This book just describes how shit the system is. I don’t live in the US but they are presumably universally applicable. Kiara is a strong woman and a women who sacrificed so much to end up in worse situations. Marcus did my head in, his dreams of making it were so big that he ignored what was actually happening on the ground then when someone pulled strings to get him a job he ducking threw it back in their face. He kept going back to Cole convinced he’d make it even though From the sounds of it his bars were weak. Kiara tried everything to get him to listen get him to help and he threw it back in her face shat on her for when she resigned herself to the only way she knew to make money. She had dropped out of school and was trying so hard to get a job but nobody was hiring so she had no other choice. What made her drop out? Her familial situation which was a byproduct of mistreatment at the hands of literally everyone.

Uncle Ty came back and did nothing only ridicule her, the kids did not ask to be born they are not their parents and just cause you had issues with their mother doesn’t mean you shouldn’t help instead you spit in this girls face who is literally doing the onLy thing she can to make money and tell her her dad would be disappointed instead of stretching out a hand and supporting her cause you know how old she is and you know she was taken advantage of.

How selfish of that cop to put her name in the suicide note to drag her into a whole mess partially of his creation too the absolute prick probably realised how much shame and hardship that would bring her.

Sweet ale knew when to walk away at times when she needed breathers which we might’ve disagreed with but once you realise why you forgive her because they’ve all had it rough, she always made her way back to Kiara when she needed her though, I hope the best for Trevor too. I understand it was unreasonable to think Kiara would become legal guardian to him but I hope the system he’s now a part of doesn’t treat him too awfully and that he continues to play ball and swim to drown out the noise around him. He doesn’t deserve any of this. None of them do they are all only kids.

That scene of the police officer cornering her and scraping her vaginal walls so hard it bled was fucking disgusting btw. Literally made mine fucking close up at the thoughts of it. Those police men were all as bad as the other, the people no are supposed to protect you turn out to be dicks exploiting their authority and keeping their jobs after all that. To hear this is based on true story too is harrowing and my heart goes out to any young girl who finds themselves in these situations, I hope it gets better for them but honestly it’s questionable

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moiracampbell23's review against another edition

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dark emotional informative sad medium-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

4.5

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atsundarsingh's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.75

Absolutely harrowing. I can't believe the sophistication and depth of Mottley's writing on a project she started when she was just 17. I can't wait to keep reading her work in the future. As for this specific work, I think it's such a testament to empathy that it should be even more widely read. Incredible debut.

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clara_mai's review against another edition

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4.0

Streets always find you in the daylight, when you least expect them to. Night crawling up to me when the sun's out.

This is a fantastic debut novel (it's wild to think about that the author is the same age as me). Inspired by real events, it accounts the experience of Kiara, a 17-years-old Black girl in a difficult familial and financial situation getting into sex work and ending up being sexually abused and exploited by a whole ring of of police officers. While revealing the corruption of the police and the justice system, the narrative also centers on Kiara's relationships to the people in her life, both complicated and beautiful. I think this could have been even more powerful if it was overall less metaphorically dense, if the imagery had been reduced in some places so that it would hit even harder in others. Overall though, the prose has great rhythm and storytelling-wise this book is just brilliant.

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hapikohw's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

To be 17 and write something like this, so heavy, with such fullness, grace, lyricism and most importantly - empathy. Wow, we have a writer right here.

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