A review by tetromino
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

medium-paced

1.5

Idk what to even say about this book. It was like, fine, for the majority. I was just kinda plodding through it for reading challenge purposes. Then BOOM an extremely out of place, and frankly offensive, ending. I can't even tell if the author intended it to be so rancid but it certainly came off that way. Fucking eeeyikes, no matter how you want to interpret it, to present a character's way of gender presentation (or possibly mental illness, as the book maybe implies???) as a spell they need to "break"  by convincing the person they are miserable actually is a bad look.
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