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Keep Faith by Kess Costales, C.T. Callahan, Mary Fan, Elly Ha, Sofia Soter, Kate Brauning, Mayara Barros, Bogi Takács, Adiba Jaigirdar, Julia Rios, Megan Manzano, Shenwei Chang, Vanshika Prusty, Gabriela Martins
4.0
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I already knew Keep Faith was gonna be epic, AND I’m glad it didn’t disappoint!
Keep Faith is an anthology that puts together fourteen short novels, and all have one thing in common: queerness. The authors are all queer, and this book was meant to explore how they each view faith in a broad sense. I was, admitelly, a bit hesitant at first. I’m not big on reading anthologies, but I was suprised at how easy it was to swift from one story to another. The novels have different sizes and each focus on character development differently, and because they’re overall short, it wasn’t difficult to jump from story to story. It makes the reading experience easier and lighter!
Also, I’m not exactly a religious person. Growing up, faith was always about religion and my mother would make me attend Church and I had go through some formalities, but I didn’t have any pleasure in them, and eventually got old enough to quit. While my mother and grandmother believe deeply in God – but don’t attend Church as much anymore-, my dad’s side of the family doesn’t, and they don’t really care. So it doesn’t play a big part in my life anymore. I was hesitant because this book seemed to be just the opposite of “not a big part”. However, these are the authors’ views and experiences and definitely weren’t massive to read. Besides, not every short novel focus as greatly on faith (as they were put on the synopsis, it isn’t always about religion, unless you want it to be).
I already knew Keep Faith was gonna be epic, AND I’m glad it didn’t disappoint!
Keep Faith is an anthology that puts together fourteen short novels, and all have one thing in common: queerness. The authors are all queer, and this book was meant to explore how they each view faith in a broad sense. I was, admitelly, a bit hesitant at first. I’m not big on reading anthologies, but I was suprised at how easy it was to swift from one story to another. The novels have different sizes and each focus on character development differently, and because they’re overall short, it wasn’t difficult to jump from story to story. It makes the reading experience easier and lighter!
Also, I’m not exactly a religious person. Growing up, faith was always about religion and my mother would make me attend Church and I had go through some formalities, but I didn’t have any pleasure in them, and eventually got old enough to quit. While my mother and grandmother believe deeply in God – but don’t attend Church as much anymore-, my dad’s side of the family doesn’t, and they don’t really care. So it doesn’t play a big part in my life anymore. I was hesitant because this book seemed to be just the opposite of “not a big part”. However, these are the authors’ views and experiences and definitely weren’t massive to read. Besides, not every short novel focus as greatly on faith (as they were put on the synopsis, it isn’t always about religion, unless you want it to be).