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aformeracceleratedreader's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.5
Moderate: Abandonment, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Sexism, Lesbophobia, and Colonisation
Minor: Police brutality, Racism, War, and Violence
emily_mh's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Medical content, Blood, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, War, Police brutality, Death, Confinement, Death of parent, Sexism, Homophobia, Gore, Body horror, Genocide, Misogyny, Violence, Colonisation, and Gun violence
Minor: Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Grief, Murder, Racism, Domestic abuse, Cursing, Suicide, Animal death, Ableism, Bullying, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Slavery, Child death, Racial slurs, Classism, Toxic friendship, Transphobia, Self harm, and Excrement
Graphic warnings for global warming/climate change and imprisonment. Moderate warnings for loss of a loved one, nuclear bombs and bombs. Minor warnings for drowning and menstruation.madarauchiha's review
3.0
fave stories Liberia by Kwame Mbalia, The Coldest Spot in the Universe by Samira Ahmed though the eugenics is fucked up, The Takeback Tango by Rebecca Roanhorse, and Habibi by Tochi Onyebuchi.
Stories not listed here don't have CWs from me because I forgot to do so
◆ A Universe of Wishes by Tara Sim
major death, gore, unsanitary,
◆ Cristal y Ceniza by Anna-Marie McLemore
major rape, sex slavery, misogyny, forced marriage, colorism, classism,
◆ The Takeback Tango by Rebecca Roanhorse
minor alcohol, genocide, colonization, slavery. prisons,
medium demolition,
◆ Unmoor by Mark Oshiro
major memory loss, cheating behavior, toxic relationships,
◆ The Coldest Spot in the Universe by Samira Ahmed
minor child death, mass death, major eugenics, ecofascism,
major death, gore, climate change,
◆ Longer Than the Threads of Time by Zoraida Córdova
minor body horror, dogs, animal death, unsanitary, menstruation
major child abuse? not sure the age, imprisonment,
◆ Habibi by Tochi Onyebuchi
minor insects,
medium guns, gang related scenes,
major gun violence, gore, suicide, blood, police brutality, prison abuses, anti black racism, black people death, starvation, hunger strikes, colonial occupation / colonization
Graphic: Racism, Blood, Child abuse, Colonisation, Confinement, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Misogyny, Police brutality, Rape, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Suicide, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Gun violence and Violence
Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Colonisation, Genocide, and Slavery
ceallaighsbooks's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
“Also, foreigners who came to Gaza would bring books. And we would sometimes fight over them. They were portals to different worlds. And in them you could sometimes see yourself. Even though they were rarely about Arabs, and rarely about young Arab boys like me, if I squinted, I could see in the contours of their heroes something of my shoulders and my hair and my hands and feet. If I closed my eyes, I could imagine myself as the main character. And I was a hero who did not destroy things but saved them.” — from “Habibi”, by Tochi Onyebuchi
“Please write me back.
Even if you aren’t real."
— from “Habibi”
“We study the ancient ones to learn about ourselves. They are not a monoculture, not a song with a single note. They are a collection of stories, an endless symphony, a galaxy of stars.” — from Samira Ahmed’s “The Coldest Spot in the Universe”
- A Phoenix First Must Burn, ed. by Patricia Caldwell
- How Long ’Til Black Future Month, by N. K. Jemisin
- Riot Baby, by Tochi Onyebuchi
- Black Sun, by Rebecca Roanhorse
Graphic: Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Violence
Graphic descriptions of incarceration.