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The Deepest Roots
by Miranda Asebedo
TW - abuse, sexual assault, really smarmy and rapey comments by grown men to adult girls.
Hard to really explain how much I love this book.
The Deepest Roots is set in the town of Cottonwood Hollow, Kansas, where the girls grow up a little bit different. Each Cottonwood girl has an ability - they can Fix things, there are Enoughs who always have enough of whatever they need, there are Finders, Wits, and Sirens. Our story primarily follows three girls: Rome, Lux, and Mercy.
Rome is a Fixer - she can repair broken phone screens with the touch of her finger and when she was four, she tugged the power cord of a broken microwave and prepared that too. It's a good thing, too, because her abilities as a Fixer are the only thing keeping her and her mom afloat. She's able to hold down a job a car mechanic to help pay the rent on her trailer. However, when her mom gets laid off, even her abilities might not be enough.
Lux is a (lesbian) siren. Her ability she regards as a curse. Once able to charm her algebra teacher into thinking that she had turned in tests that she hadn't, she learned at a young age that grown men proclaiming love for her as a young girl isn't a good thing. She's got a dark secret and is desperate to get out of Cottonwood Hollow.
Mercy is an Enough. Whenever Rome drives the girls to school and Mercy's in the back seat, there's always enough gas in the car, even when Rome can't afford to fill the tank.
This book is about these three girls, at varying levels of struggle, trying to carve their paths out. When a tornado drops a mysterious box containing a diary of the woman who supposedly cursed the girls of Cottonwood Hollow with their abilities decades back, the girls realize there is treasure to be found - treasure that could help them crawl away from poverty, from evils, or just find success in life. But the three girls aren't the only ones looking for the lost treasure.
This book was sort of like an all-girl version of the Goonies meets that Southern gothic charm that appeals to me so much, being from the south. There's a familiarity in this book to me, as a person that has known struggle and wondered where food was going to come from. This book is about finding your way and girls supporting girls. I really, really loved it.
I had some minor grievances with the book. I think the "mystery" was very simple and it was strange to me it took as long for the characters to figure out as it did. I also wish we had seen more romance with Lux and her girlfriend; I struggled with tagging this book as lgbtqia because the representation is very minor. I also wanted more of Mercy in general. But none of this ultimately hindered my enjoyment of a beautiful book. The writing was good, I loved the story and the touches of magic, and I love that it was about girls. This book was very, very me.
Hard to really explain how much I love this book.
The Deepest Roots is set in the town of Cottonwood Hollow, Kansas, where the girls grow up a little bit different. Each Cottonwood girl has an ability - they can Fix things, there are Enoughs who always have enough of whatever they need, there are Finders, Wits, and Sirens. Our story primarily follows three girls: Rome, Lux, and Mercy.
Rome is a Fixer - she can repair broken phone screens with the touch of her finger and when she was four, she tugged the power cord of a broken microwave and prepared that too. It's a good thing, too, because her abilities as a Fixer are the only thing keeping her and her mom afloat. She's able to hold down a job a car mechanic to help pay the rent on her trailer. However, when her mom gets laid off, even her abilities might not be enough.
Lux is a (lesbian) siren. Her ability she regards as a curse. Once able to charm her algebra teacher into thinking that she had turned in tests that she hadn't, she learned at a young age that grown men proclaiming love for her as a young girl isn't a good thing. She's got a dark secret and is desperate to get out of Cottonwood Hollow.
Mercy is an Enough. Whenever Rome drives the girls to school and Mercy's in the back seat, there's always enough gas in the car, even when Rome can't afford to fill the tank.
This book is about these three girls, at varying levels of struggle, trying to carve their paths out. When a tornado drops a mysterious box containing a diary of the woman who supposedly cursed the girls of Cottonwood Hollow with their abilities decades back, the girls realize there is treasure to be found - treasure that could help them crawl away from poverty, from evils, or just find success in life. But the three girls aren't the only ones looking for the lost treasure.
This book was sort of like an all-girl version of the Goonies meets that Southern gothic charm that appeals to me so much, being from the south. There's a familiarity in this book to me, as a person that has known struggle and wondered where food was going to come from. This book is about finding your way and girls supporting girls. I really, really loved it.
I had some minor grievances with the book. I think the "mystery" was very simple and it was strange to me it took as long for the characters to figure out as it did. I also wish we had seen more romance with Lux and her girlfriend; I struggled with tagging this book as lgbtqia because the representation is very minor. I also wanted more of Mercy in general. But none of this ultimately hindered my enjoyment of a beautiful book. The writing was good, I loved the story and the touches of magic, and I love that it was about girls. This book was very, very me.