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sassylk's review
dark
emotional
funny
inspiring
sad
slow-paced
2.0
I found this book hard to read for a variety of reasons. For one, some of the stories felt very rough and out of place, like they had been drafted for a different collection. Each story was only really connected through the setting - Australia, and the fact that they were written by people of colour. However, this didn’t mean that the stories were coherent or even very well written. Some of them felt very rushed and flat. I was also expecting a lot more Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander voices to be featured and was disappointed when I realised there weren’t that many. Theirs were the contributions I loved the most - the poetry by Nardi Simpson was wonderful and it was beautiful to see it written in both its native language and English. I also learnt a lot reading the last story about the Stolen Generation, something I’d never heard of before. However, some of the stories in this were either very slow (Massoud Morsi and Declan Fry) or just downright badly written (L-Fresh the Lion using his own cringey rap lyrics intermittently throughout his weird boring autobiography). Overall, I was unimpressed and dissatisfied with a collection I had been really excited to read.
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