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Màgòdiz by Gabe Calderón

3 reviews

coymeld's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Genocide, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Death, Murder, Sexual violence, Gun violence, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Pregnancy

tangleroot_eli's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

So much is going on in this book. One thing that fascinates me is that it very much appears to be a book in conversation with Farenheit 451. That book ends with the horror of nuclear war but also the weirdly optimistic (and science-defying) return of several characters to the recently destroyed city to rebuild.

Màgòdiz, set in a post-nuclear wasteland somewhere in the center of an unnamed land mass that I nevertheless take to be modern-day North America, seems to take Bradbury's premises - the storytellers, the war - and infuses it with pragmatism and indigenous sensibilities. I don't know if this was Calderón's intent (nothing I've read about Màgòdiz references this connection), but I felt it so strongly, and for me it added a fascinating overlayer to every word.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Violence, Blood, and Torture

Moderate: Police brutality, Murder, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Sexual content, Gun violence, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Gore, and Kidnapping

Minor: War, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual assault

Environmental degradation, Euthanasia, Mind control

goolaina's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Though fiction, this novel is a good introduction into 2 Spirit identities and Indigenous storytelling. Highly recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation and Genocide

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Blood, Body horror, and Torture

Minor: Sexual content