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onceandfuturereaders's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
There are quite a few references to Harry Potter. Just feel like it’s important to note.
Graphic: Sexism and Police brutality
author2223'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? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Xenophobia, and Police brutality
Moderate: Racism
queer_bookwyrm'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? No
3.75
Lobizona by Romina Garber is book one in the Wolves of No World duology. I really enjoyed this book, but I docked a partial star, because this book was chock full of HP references, and it was distracting. I will be so happy when we can get to a place where authors realize they can reference other magical books instead of the one written by a Transphobe.
We follow Manu, an undocumented girl living in Miami, FL, where she is cooped up in a small apartment and can't risk being seen. According to her mother, being noticeable = deportation, and Manu's yellow star shaped eyes definitely make her noticeable. When her mom is arrested by ICE, Manu finds herself in a world where everyone has eyes like hers. A secret world where boys are werewolves and girls are Brujas, but the problem is, Manu finds herself to be an outsider here too.
I love coming back to Romina's writing, her world building is always spectacular! She really sucks you in with her descriptions and imagination. Romina put a lot of her Argentine culture in here, and it seems like it's a love letter to undocumented kids everywhere who straddle an impossible line. We get messages about the horrors or deportation and the absurdity of claiming a human is illegal.
A big theme in this book is the idea that binary thinking is limited and oppressive. In the world Manu ends up in, girls are only allowed to do certain things and boys are only allowed to do certain things, so when Manu's very existence challenges those traditional binary notions, she doesn't get the support she wants. I'm so glad the gender essentialism in this book is challenged, because there is a lot of it. Manu's story is about living in the in between, about not fitting in, and about growing up and figuring things out without your parents to guide you.
I'm excited to start Cazadora, and hopefully there will be fewer (ideally none) HP references.
Graphic: Police brutality
Moderate: Misogyny
ava_cowbell'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? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Misogyny
Moderate: Police brutality
melinabarbuto's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Confinement, Xenophobia, and Stalking
Moderate: Drug use, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, and Police brutality
rachelgronbach's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, and Police brutality
gagne's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Moderate: Sexism
Minor: Police brutality
e_flah's review against another edition
Moderate: Police brutality
Minor: Death of parent
gentlethem94's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Moderate: Misogyny and Sexism
Minor: Police brutality and Fire/Fire injury
TW for descriptions of deportation threats and ICE presencemaruu_t's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Bullying, Misogyny, and Violence
Moderate: Blood and Police brutality