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Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejidé

9 reviews

august_goldfischer's review

challenging dark emotional sad 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, Pedophilia, Violence, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, War, Suicidal thoughts, and Racism

loesm's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Hate crime, Child abuse, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Death of parent, Drug abuse, War, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcoholism

rorikae's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

4.75

‘Creatures of Passage’ by Morowa Yejide is a gripping novel that utilizes folklore and fabulism to explore one family’s struggles. 
Nephthys drives an old Plymouth Belvedere around town, picking up people that need to go somewhere and ferrying them to their destination. Feeling lost ever since her twin brother was killed, she has drifted away from her family, her niece Amber who can see visions of people’s deaths and Amber’s son Dash, who has begun seeing visions of a man down by the river. When Amber sees a vision of Dash’s death, their three stories begin to intertwine back together. 
Yejide utilizes folklore and fabulism to explore the very real struggles of one family and the ebbs and flows of familial relationships. The story winds between different characters so that we get time with all of them as we begin to understand more about how they relate to one another and the world at large. On top of the main characters, we also follow Osiris, Nephthys’ twin brother as he moves through a murky afterlife as well as the antagonist of the novel. Yejide’s lyrical prose as well as the distinct characters that populate this story make this a memorable and affecting tale as we also learn how the characters have impacted their wider community. This book deals with a lot of difficult subjects and there is a very large trigger warning for child abuse. Some of this book was very hard to read but all of the pieces come together to tell the full story of this community and this specific family. Harrowing, heartbreaking, and heartwarming all in one, ‘Creatures of Passage’ is an excellent novel that showcases the real talent of Yejide. I am fascinated to see what she writes next.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Racism, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Pedophilia, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Car accident

ogik's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Drug use, Drug abuse, Cursing, Car accident, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Addiction, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Pedophilia, Murder, Kidnapping, Death, Classism, Blood, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, Stalking, Rape, Racial slurs, Racism, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Eating disorder, Misogyny, Cancer, Chronic illness, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, War, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse

peachani's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Death of parent, Mental illness, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Hate crime, and Grief

Moderate: Violence, Body horror, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Gore, Murder, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, and Child death

Minor: Alcohol, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Rape, War, and Torture

gracemacdonald94's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-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? It's complicated

4.75

What a gorgeous book. Some of the themes make it a really tough read, so I took my time with it. But overall it is a beautiful and thoughtful book with a hard earned ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, Death of parent, Racism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Murder, Kidnapping, and Hate crime

maggiems's review against another edition

3.0

A classic case of wrong book at the wrong time. Just was in a reading slump and struggled to get through this. 

The book is beautifully lyrical and has the exact right aura of mysticism, but some of it was a hard read. 

Need more black joy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Racism, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Murder, and Hate crime

Minor: Suicide attempt, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

caffee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

3.0

Beautiful writing but so depressing, cycles of abuse and despair that's unrelenting, although it's finished well I'm still left feeling tainted. I'd read what she writes in the future if the premise is more optimistic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child abuse, Rape, Abandonment, Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Drug abuse

erinshinereads's review

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Child abuse, and Suicidal thoughts