A review by paigeyyyyelizabeth
Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman

4.0

so when i was first reading this book i didn’t like it. i thought that the plot wasn’t new by any means, and then i realized….that’s the point. it’s this story of settler and native, oppressed and oppressor, colonizer and colonized that we see over and over in history. i also thought at first that coleman was dumbing it down for her audience, but it’s the opposite. she chooses throughout the book to make concrete connections to the seemingly ridiculous narrative and the real colonization of australian aboriginals. the blurb on the back of the book literally says “Do you recognize this story? Look again.” a lot of people in the critical thinking class i was assigned this book to read in thought the story felt too YA. and i agreed with them at first, but as i said before, i see that it’s intentional. a review on here called the book “deceptively simple” and honestly i can’t think of a better way to describe it.