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A review by catlion27
Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott
challenging
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Best book I read of 2023. It's about the power of stories and memory and trauma but also living in spite of and because of everything that's come before you. The prose is gorgeous (apparently the author's only other published work as of this review is a book-length poem, and I can believe it), and the characters are all excellently drawn. The interludes are fabulously done, with so much personality and heart. The audiobook narrator is fantastic too.
"You are remembering this story as I tell it, are you not? Is this not a haunting? A story that is told and told and will not hush in the telling? A story already inside your ears even before I speak?"
"What is a lie but a story? And what power a story has when whispered in the ear of a man with a gun."
"You are remembering this story as I tell it, are you not? Is this not a haunting? A story that is told and told and will not hush in the telling? A story already inside your ears even before I speak?"
"What is a lie but a story? And what power a story has when whispered in the ear of a man with a gun."
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death