A review by emcat591
We Are Not Free by Traci Chee

challenging emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This book was very moving. Each chapter has a different narrator. Some of them speak in a sort of 1940s style, and one of them is even in the form of poems. Some of the chapters dragged a bit for me because I wasn't interested in that particular narrator or story, but most of them kept me interested. If I could nitpick just a little,
I wish that the Keiko/Twitchy romance hadn't happened. I liked Keiko's character better before that, and I felt that Minnow's reaction to Twitchy's death would have been more impactful if he were the only one to have romantic feelings toward Twitchy.
But that's just a nitpick. Overall, I really felt for all the characters and the awful things they were experiencing, and I loved reading about how they still wove these uplifting community moments into their lives even through everything that was going on.
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