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maria_munguambe's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gaslighting, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Racism
uhhlexiconic's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
sad
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
A book about boundaries and the ways white allies can be intrusive in their desire to help, Such a Fun Age takes a while to really get started and wraps up too neatly for the complicated set up. Still, its an incredible work in the insidious nature of white supremacy and the way the employer can force relationships on the employee.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Police brutality
Moderate: Racism, Racial slurs, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Vomit
orladonnelly's review against another edition
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-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? It's complicated
4.0
This book is so so good, loved the ending personally, I felt that it started a little slow for me but after the first few pages it really picked up and I couldn’t put it down
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Police brutality
Minor: Toxic friendship
amandavalrose's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism
Minor: Police brutality
sharlapeggy's review against another edition
inspiring
reflective
fast-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? No
4.0
The discussion surrounding race gripped me from start to finish. I loved this book and everything it stood for.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism
Minor: Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Police brutality, Sexism, Slavery, Toxic friendship, and Xenophobia
kliu55's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
tense
fast-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? It's complicated
4.75
I loved this book because it didn't have a clean, happy ending. Emira's story was a slight critique of "woke" culture today, specifically that of white people who may champion themselves as allies to the Black community despite their own racist behaviors.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Police brutality and Racism
jonbrady's review against another edition
informative
reflective
sad
tense
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? Yes
4.0
Such a Fun Age is a proper page-turner about modern millennial living, privilege, white saviours and black fetishists and the kinds of micro-aggressions that permeate our lives.
Emira Tucker, down-on-her-luck Black twentysomething, takes a babysitting job for women-empowering blogger Alix Chamberlain - who sees herself, her upmarket home and her Cody family as the life-changing opportunity Emira has been waiting for. But when Emira is racially profiled in a supermarket and the incident is caught on camera, what flares up between the pair reveals much about both and how their race has dictated their lives and the struggles they face.
Kiley Reid’s debut has much to say about the modern power dynamics between Black people and white people, particularly the white people who are seen to make the grandest efforts and gestures to be “anti-racist”. Some of the bit parts aren’t as fleshed out as they could be, and the closing scenes perhaps amp up the conflict a little more than expected, but this is a great study that asks why, so often, Black people are characterised only by what they do for those with white skin.
Emira Tucker, down-on-her-luck Black twentysomething, takes a babysitting job for women-empowering blogger Alix Chamberlain - who sees herself, her upmarket home and her Cody family as the life-changing opportunity Emira has been waiting for. But when Emira is racially profiled in a supermarket and the incident is caught on camera, what flares up between the pair reveals much about both and how their race has dictated their lives and the struggles they face.
Kiley Reid’s debut has much to say about the modern power dynamics between Black people and white people, particularly the white people who are seen to make the grandest efforts and gestures to be “anti-racist”. Some of the bit parts aren’t as fleshed out as they could be, and the closing scenes perhaps amp up the conflict a little more than expected, but this is a great study that asks why, so often, Black people are characterised only by what they do for those with white skin.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing
Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Kidnapping, and Gaslighting
dramaqueentears's review against another edition
funny
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Emira Tucker, a 25 year old black woman, is held up at a grocery store late at night with Briar Chamberlain, the three year old she babysits for an affluent white family in Philadelphia. Emira is accused of kidnapping Briar, but luckily a parent arrives just in time and the situation is diffused.
Alix, the mom and ultimate ~girl boss~, goes through the worst white savior complex ever trying to keep Emira as her sitter because she doesn’t want to parent her eldest daughter. Emira starts dating a guy named Kelley, who she meets at the grocery store that night when he recorded the whole incident on his phone. Early on, it becomes clear that Kelley has a fetish for black people. All three of them are connected, however, and the conflict really becomes deciding who is the most racist between Alix and Kelley.
I have mixed thoughts. The frequent mentions of weight were disconcerting to me. I feel like we knew much more about Alix than Emira. I loved the relationship between Emira and Briar. I hate that the story wasn’t tied up cleanly enough and that Alix and Kelley never have to take accountability for the terrible things they did, but maybe that was the author’s intention.
Overall, I liked it. It was fun, quick, and distracting.
Alix, the mom and ultimate ~girl boss~, goes through the worst white savior complex ever trying to keep Emira as her sitter because she doesn’t want to parent her eldest daughter. Emira starts dating a guy named Kelley, who she meets at the grocery store that night when he recorded the whole incident on his phone. Early on, it becomes clear that Kelley has a fetish for black people. All three of them are connected, however, and the conflict really becomes deciding who is the most racist between Alix and Kelley.
I have mixed thoughts. The frequent mentions of weight were disconcerting to me. I feel like we knew much more about Alix than Emira. I loved the relationship between Emira and Briar. I hate that the story wasn’t tied up cleanly enough and that Alix and Kelley never have to take accountability for the terrible things they did, but maybe that was the author’s intention.
Overall, I liked it. It was fun, quick, and distracting.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Cultural appropriation, Racial slurs, and Racism
Minor: Police brutality
alisazhup's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I agree with other reviewers that the ending was underwhelming (all the discussions the book opened were abruptly sealed), but up until the last 10 or so pages, I was extremely impressed by the complex character dynamics. I loved this.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Police brutality, Racism, and Deadnaming
Moderate: Alcohol, Bullying, Cursing, and Fatphobia
Minor: Animal death, Blood, Death of parent, Pedophilia, and Racial slurs
Child neglecterinla42's review against another edition
challenging
dark
funny
hopeful
reflective
fast-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
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Toxic relationship
Minor: Body shaming, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Sexism, Racial slurs, and Police brutality