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A review by heelturn2
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
3.5
devastating and weird. at times really hard to read and then suddenly you get these little moments of humanity and care and community that let you keep going. little tiny interactions are written with detail and care that I really loved. very beautiful and very dark. dystopic parts took me by surprise because when some of them first came up I earnestly thought it was just another real evil part of the incarceration system I hadn’t heard of before, until I realized details outpaced current real world tech. very short and hits very hard.
might have to revisit a few parts again before returning this to the library - the writing is sometimes very quick and abstracted, & coupled with the fantastical powers doing unexpected things I could sometimes lose the thread of what was happening too easily.
might have to revisit a few parts again before returning this to the library - the writing is sometimes very quick and abstracted, & coupled with the fantastical powers doing unexpected things I could sometimes lose the thread of what was happening too easily.