Reviews with content warning for Cursing - Native Tongue

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challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

3.5

definitely a product of second-wave white feminism which really imo... detracted from it... like more than once she says something like "women in this world are treated in the way that was once reserved for racial differences" and there was just no... questioning of that, at all
not really a book about linguistics so much as it is a book about people who speak multiple languages but that's just the purist in me whining
where it involved Linguistics, it leaned into weak sapir-whorf, which i just don't like
also rlly promoted the idea of the long-suffering but hard-working woman who simply cannot go on but does anyway? i wasn't sure if that was the perception of the author or the narrator though
would've liked a glimpse into how the world would have treated disability, gayness, transness, neurodivergence, etc but every woman in the novel was almost interchangeable with one another except in the degree of their linguistic and how irritating they were to men. they were all otherwise ""normal""
sometimes it went heavy on exposition
like most misogynistic dystopias it was pretty distressing to read, but in this one the distress came from the psychological abuse rather than the sexual abuse. i don't want to say it was a welcome change but it was approached well, imo. distressingly accurate. not something you should approach unless you're feeling up to it
in general the whole premise was really cool and geared to my interests though

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