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badseedgirl's review
3.0
I find reading stories with gender fluidity to be very challenging. Sigh, I guess I'm getting old.
This story was dark, and sad, and I felt for both these young people. This reminded me very much of the "It Gets Better" campaign.
This story was dark, and sad, and I felt for both these young people. This reminded me very much of the "It Gets Better" campaign.
ruxandra_grr's review
4.0
“—that’s why I’m doing this, I guess. To tell you the future can be more magnificent, and more terrifying, than what you have in your head right now. And the one you embrace will be the one you end up with.”
Well, I totally teared up at the end. It was a really lovely story.
Well, I totally teared up at the end. It was a really lovely story.
vohak's review
emotional
mysterious
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? Yes
4.5
gengelcox's review
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
My kind of story, about outsiders bonding over music, set in the time of my childhood, soaked in the stuff that science fiction promises of how things could be better if only. While I wasn’t bothered by its focus on gender, I did feel like Miller did a bit of time travel there by importing the language and issues of 2020 into the mid 1980s. Or perhaps this is an alternative Earth, where those issues emerged earlier? However, I’m surprised Miller was able to publish this, given the use of lyrics to both Iggy Pop and David Bowie songs.
fengxin's review
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
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? Yes
4.0
nexelle's review
emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
cosmogyral's review
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
2.0
This is a cute story, but a little simplistic and short on resolution. I'm disappointed to see other reviews complaining it's ~overly woke~, both because c'mon, and because I actually felt its handling of gender was a little small-c conservative. I didn't like that the character Laurie equates gender with clothes, or that she assumes that because she can't tell what Fell's gender was, that means she knows they're nonbinary.
(Context: I am also nonbinary.)
(Context: I am also nonbinary.)