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A review by laceanddaggerbooks
The Brilliant Death by A.R. Capetta
5.0
Sometimes a book is just fantastical, wonderful and means the world to you. This is one of those books for me.
The book follows Teodora - Teo - a young strega who has to travel to the capital as a boy to save her family with the help of a genderfluid strega and begins to discover her own gender identity along the way.
The world building in this book was fascinating, the use of language magical and this book was just wonderful. The political intrigue really drew you in and I'm looking forward to seeing where this all was going to go.
I'll just leave this on this note. As a genderfluid person who is still discovering herself...books like this are everything. There was a quote in here that summed things up perfectly:
"I'd often felt like I didn't fit into the boundaries of the word girl. It reminded me of a country I could happily visit, but the longer I stayed, the more I knew I couldn't live there all the time. There were times I sorely wished to be free of the confines of this body."
This quote spoke to me. This is why own voices books are so important because when the people it belongs to reads the book, they feel heard. They feel understood. Gender is something flexible, that can mean different things to different people but affects us all. Sometimes I feel like a fraud but this settled something good in my chest.
Thank you for writing this book Amy Rose.
The book follows Teodora - Teo - a young strega who has to travel to the capital as a boy to save her family with the help of a genderfluid strega and begins to discover her own gender identity along the way.
The world building in this book was fascinating, the use of language magical and this book was just wonderful. The political intrigue really drew you in and I'm looking forward to seeing where this all was going to go.
I'll just leave this on this note. As a genderfluid person who is still discovering herself...books like this are everything. There was a quote in here that summed things up perfectly:
"I'd often felt like I didn't fit into the boundaries of the word girl. It reminded me of a country I could happily visit, but the longer I stayed, the more I knew I couldn't live there all the time. There were times I sorely wished to be free of the confines of this body."
This quote spoke to me. This is why own voices books are so important because when the people it belongs to reads the book, they feel heard. They feel understood. Gender is something flexible, that can mean different things to different people but affects us all. Sometimes I feel like a fraud but this settled something good in my chest.
Thank you for writing this book Amy Rose.