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A review by marioncromb
Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- 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
3.25
Not a style of prose I am personally a big fan of, kinda a bit too YA & tell not show (common with these sort of alphabet soup and very deliberate 'for the representation' books), but an enjoyable read.
I liked the French(-Canadian?) aspect to the worldbuilding
I really liked some of the side characters, like Mx Kouna and Emmanuelle.
The fat rep was nice. The genderfluid rep i think was shown very well, the benefits of the book format is that it is easy to just take it as written (Claire, and also Claude, different but the same) and conceptualise gender in a purer way without any visual distraction. In a world with magic though i always feel like real world signifiers of gnc like binders or etc wouldn't really be necessary, because magic could do better??
Nice to have aro & ace rep but as an aro it got too sappy for me
A diverse cast of characters but there was a lil bit of 'white as default', while the characters with black or brown skin was often deliberately made clear, no one was explicitly described as white (and only one or two side characters occasionally described as pale) when i think they were supposed to have been assumed to be (?)
The witches in the tanks and left in the bridge seemed kind of forgotten about?? I also wanted to know what happened with the exocores
I liked the French(-Canadian?) aspect to the worldbuilding
I really liked some of the side characters, like Mx Kouna and Emmanuelle.
The fat rep was nice. The genderfluid rep i think was shown very well, the benefits of the book format is that it is easy to just take it as written (Claire, and also Claude, different but the same) and conceptualise gender in a purer way without any visual distraction. In a world with magic though i always feel like real world signifiers of gnc like binders or etc wouldn't really be necessary, because magic could do better??
Nice to have aro & ace rep but as an aro it got too sappy for me
A diverse cast of characters but there was a lil bit of 'white as default', while the characters with black or brown skin was often deliberately made clear, no one was explicitly described as white (and only one or two side characters occasionally described as pale) when i think they were supposed to have been assumed to be (?)