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A review by misssusan
When We Wake by Karen Healey
4.0
man this is the kind of book i want to teach in english classes
like it tackles all these sort of current events type themes that my profs tend to use as a gauge of a book's quality but also manages to be really absorbing and just fun to read
it is basically political activism: the thesis
so like. excellent jumping ground for discussion!
also tegan's a great narrator, she is basically an action movie heroine with a social conscience
plus she has great friends, like me and bethari should hang. she can teach me all about future tech and i can enviously contemplate a twenty second century where anti-muslim prejudice is a thing of the past
(idk if i bought it exactly because i find it difficult to believe that anti-immigrant sentiment could get decoupled from racism and islamophobia; there's a lot of muslims in those third world countries people hate so much in this book. still a nice fantasy though)
plus outside that particular note i found healey's depiction of the future super plausible, good in some aspects, terrible in others, all in ways that feel like they could easily emerge from our current discourse
4 stars
like it tackles all these sort of current events type themes that my profs tend to use as a gauge of a book's quality but also manages to be really absorbing and just fun to read
it is basically political activism: the thesis
so like. excellent jumping ground for discussion!
also tegan's a great narrator, she is basically an action movie heroine with a social conscience
plus she has great friends, like me and bethari should hang. she can teach me all about future tech and i can enviously contemplate a twenty second century where anti-muslim prejudice is a thing of the past
(idk if i bought it exactly because i find it difficult to believe that anti-immigrant sentiment could get decoupled from racism and islamophobia; there's a lot of muslims in those third world countries people hate so much in this book. still a nice fantasy though)
plus outside that particular note i found healey's depiction of the future super plausible, good in some aspects, terrible in others, all in ways that feel like they could easily emerge from our current discourse
4 stars