A review by mushimushi
Taboo by Kim Scott

challenging dark slow-paced

4.0

This story wraps together so many things, and it’s only in the last 50 pages that I began to perhaps have an understanding of what all the dislocated pieces of this story represent and the use of dislocation and haziness itself. The most important thing, to me, is the representation of hope and of acceptance that you may have to start again and again and again and that there is not point at which starting again is a bad thing. I do not like how Tilly is used as a vehicle for showing present wrongs, largely because I am not sure she is given enough of a character or a voice in the story, but I understand how her experience wraps back around to the past and how she can represent justice and perseverance in the future. There is a lot here to reflect upon.