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A review by lanidon
The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow
Did not finish book.
2.0
I don't think this is a bad book, I think I just have personally outgrown YA. I DNF'd about halfway through.
My two main reasons for not loving this book are 1) the hamfisted wokeness of it that is really surface level and not at all nuanced 2) the fact that I feel I've seen this plot done better elsewhere
Neither of these things should be a knock against the author because this is YA and I haven't read another YA like it, I merely have adult books I prefer to this
Please note this is an INCREDIBLY dark book that has on the page death, check the content warnings before reading
My two main reasons for not loving this book are 1) the hamfisted wokeness of it that is really surface level and not at all nuanced 2) the fact that I feel I've seen this plot done better elsewhere
Neither of these things should be a knock against the author because this is YA and I haven't read another YA like it, I merely have adult books I prefer to this
Please note this is an INCREDIBLY dark book that has on the page death, check the content warnings before reading
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Confinement, and Genocide