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What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi

6 reviews

beccaand's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Physical abuse, Death, and Child death

Minor: Body horror

msradiosilence's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

Tldr; the book is amazing, atmospheric, AND gay!

Read my full review at: https://www.rainyreader.com/single-post/what-is-not-yours-is-not-yours

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Murder, Abandonment, Blood, Cursing, Classism, War, Colonisation, Grief, Violence, and Kidnapping

mandkips's review against another edition

challenging mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Physical abuse

cemeterygay's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

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

3.5

It's an interesting collection of short stories. Some of them are a bit more forgettable including the first one but stories like the second in the collection really stand out. There is an overall wonderful cohesion between all the stories. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Child death, Physical abuse, Death, and Violence

Minor: Animal cruelty and Body horror

k41ina's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Child death

for_esme_with_love's review against another edition

challenging funny mysterious 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

4.5

Magical realism as a genre can be a bit of an acquired taste. It takes a lot of trust to allow an author to take you by the hand and drop you in a setting where strange and inexplicable things happen without the rules of a magical system, or indeed any rhyme or reason. Helen Oyeyemi is absolutely deserving of this trust. “What is Not Yours is Not Yours” is a wonderful collection of fairy tale-like stories loosely tied together with the motif of locks and keys which pop up in each story to raise the question, to whom does anything truly belong? This collection is surprising and delightful in bounds - HIGHLY recommend to add some much needed playfulness into your year. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse

Minor: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Forced institutionalization, and Sexual content