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The Free People's Village by Sim Kern

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ajpalj's review against another edition

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challenging reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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noblescavenger's review

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adventurous inspiring fast-paced

Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

cloelia79's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

For someone who is trying to deprogram herself, this book was inspiring and needed. Perfect for cis white women who want to do better.

I don't reread books often, but this one I will.

garibae's review against another edition

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challenging emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

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

3.75

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zainab224's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad fast-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

4.5

estefthechef's review against another edition

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2.25

This feels like it was written to make white girls feel better about making black, Indigenous, people of color teach them how to care about anything outside themselves. Having Red OD at the end was extra and didn’t actually do anything for the plot but show that black and brown people get fucked the worst? The whole thing felt exploitative and I’m hoping that’s what the point of the novel was cuz Maddie just white girl’d for 400 pages.

gwilso30's review

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dark emotional informative tense slow-paced

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

2.75

thepaperbackplanner's review against another edition

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5.0

This is the heaviest and most thought-provoking thing I have read so far for TRR. As a white cis woman, this has me thinking HARD about my own activism. I'm also coming away with a hefty reading list. To the book itself: I never felt the pace drag, and it was only too fast when I was reading so fast to get to the next page and the next and the next. The characters had so much depth and felt truly real. Texas isn't Missouri, but this story could've easily been set in St. Louis with barely any changes. This could be happening — and has happened! — in my own community. I appreciated that our main character, Maddie, fucked up over and over again, because that's a thing white cis people are destined to do on the journey to unlearn the white supremacist, patriarchal, colonialist bullshit we've been absorbing like oxygen since birth. But I also appreciated that Maddie's friends didn't always just brush off her mistakes — there were consequences, which is also the reality of the thing. Overall, this story of a protest movement working toward a better world through the brightest days and the darkest is going to stick with me for a long time.

owenrebeccaann's review against another edition

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funny informative sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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standard_disk's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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