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The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine Warga
4.0
Representation: Biracial main character, side biracial character, character with a speech disorder
Trigger warnings: Death of a child and sister in a school shooting, death of a brother by suicide, grief and loss depiction, near-death experience in a creek, hospitalisation
Read this review for context: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5728144479
8/10, originally my first book from this author was going to be Other Words for Home but someone got it before I could so I settled with this and I'm so glad I read this since it feels different yet familiar at the same time and yet this still hits like a truck much like the last book I read, think what happens when The Thing About Jellyfish meets Numb to This, where do I even begin. It starts immediately with the two main characters Cora London (I'm not sure if that's her middle or last name) and Quinn McCauley or Quinn for short and each of them are both dealing with similar instances of grief. Cora lost her sister Mabel in a school shooting and Quinn's brother killed himself there but now it's almost a year ago from that incident and yet this still affects them to this point. They separated since and Cora still wishes that this never happened so she goes on a quest with Quinn to try and time travel through a wormhole to save Mabel and she even said it was possible and one person might've done it however this doesn't go according to plan as seen later on. The two kids try to live their lives as normally as possible when they prepare for the upcoming Quiz Bowl and soon they enter however they didn't win much to their disappointment and I liked where Quinn has her brain wracked and cannot believe her brother could've done something like this so it's a love-hate relationship now; she even sends letters. Did I mention there's figurative language galore, I just love that in a book. Towards the latter half of the book, Cora ponders on some pretty heavy topics and Quinn figured out the motive but you must read the book to find out more, anyways Cora discovers a breakthrough, apparently thunder is the key to time travel and what an interesting theory that is, I sure hope it doesn't go wrong... I don't understand why Cora blames Quinn for Mabel's death even though she had nothing to do with it and I think Quinn even hallucinated about Parker once. Now Cora risked her life by going out during the fair and a storm to the place with the oak tree and a creek where she went many times before and she hit her head on a rock and almost died, if it weren't for Quinn she would've. What a shock! A few pages later Cora ends up hospitalised, recovers soon enough and finally grasps the fact that Mabel is gone and cannot come back and eventually moves on ending this bittersweetly. That author's note was a nice touch.
Trigger warnings: Death of a child and sister in a school shooting, death of a brother by suicide, grief and loss depiction, near-death experience in a creek, hospitalisation
Read this review for context: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5728144479
8/10, originally my first book from this author was going to be Other Words for Home but someone got it before I could so I settled with this and I'm so glad I read this since it feels different yet familiar at the same time and yet this still hits like a truck much like the last book I read, think what happens when The Thing About Jellyfish meets Numb to This, where do I even begin. It starts immediately with the two main characters Cora London (I'm not sure if that's her middle or last name) and Quinn McCauley or Quinn for short and each of them are both dealing with similar instances of grief. Cora lost her sister Mabel in a school shooting and Quinn's brother killed himself there but now it's almost a year ago from that incident and yet this still affects them to this point. They separated since and Cora still wishes that this never happened so she goes on a quest with Quinn to try and time travel through a wormhole to save Mabel and she even said it was possible and one person might've done it however this doesn't go according to plan as seen later on. The two kids try to live their lives as normally as possible when they prepare for the upcoming Quiz Bowl and soon they enter however they didn't win much to their disappointment and I liked where Quinn has her brain wracked and cannot believe her brother could've done something like this so it's a love-hate relationship now; she even sends letters. Did I mention there's figurative language galore, I just love that in a book. Towards the latter half of the book, Cora ponders on some pretty heavy topics and Quinn figured out the motive but you must read the book to find out more, anyways Cora discovers a breakthrough, apparently thunder is the key to time travel and what an interesting theory that is, I sure hope it doesn't go wrong... I don't understand why Cora blames Quinn for Mabel's death even though she had nothing to do with it and I think Quinn even hallucinated about Parker once. Now Cora risked her life by going out during the fair and a storm to the place with the oak tree and a creek where she went many times before and she hit her head on a rock and almost died, if it weren't for Quinn she would've. What a shock! A few pages later Cora ends up hospitalised, recovers soon enough and finally grasps the fact that Mabel is gone and cannot come back and eventually moves on ending this bittersweetly. That author's note was a nice touch.