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A review by najdvss
Truly, Devious by Maureen Johnson
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many thoughts going on and none of them are coherent. love the dual chronology of the book and how it flashes to 1936 and i guess modern age respectively. took very long for the plot to start tho but when it did i didnt stop reading hee hee. also i love representation but it was like maureen googled a list of people who dont fit molds and now every ellingham student is like ‘bisexual, person in a wheelchair, poc, guy from california, lesbian, tiktok famous, deranged’ initially it felt like a dump of ‘look how woke i am!!!!’ and then maureen didnt focus on it too much (which my disabled ass loves) and i thought oh ok cool maybe this time its different but then vi was misgendered halfway through the book so now i once again dont love the representation lol. but eeeeee i wanna know what happened aaaaaa mystery makes my brain go brrrrr
many thoughts going on and none of them are coherent. love the dual chronology of the book and how it flashes to 1936 and i guess modern age respectively. took very long for the plot to start tho but when it did i didnt stop reading hee hee. also i love representation but it was like maureen googled a list of people who dont fit molds and now every ellingham student is like ‘bisexual, person in a wheelchair, poc, guy from california, lesbian, tiktok famous, deranged’ initially it felt like a dump of ‘look how woke i am!!!!’ and then maureen didnt focus on it too much (which my disabled ass loves) and i thought oh ok cool maybe this time its different but then vi was misgendered halfway through the book so now i once again dont love the representation lol. but eeeeee i wanna know what happened aaaaaa mystery makes my brain go brrrrr