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A review by kivt
Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson
4.0
Read for 50books_poc, checked out from school library.
Pros: I adored Tan-Tan. The worldbuildling was fantastic. The entire book was written in Caribbean dialect, and it worked incredibly well. I loved just about everything about the future-space-Caribbean. Overall, it was a joy to read. I can't recommend it enough.
Cons: I loved this book. It'd be 5/5, but I absolutely hate stories about child abuse and incest in which the abusee gets pregnant and, at the end, has a miraculously healing birth. I don't buy it and I'm not into it. I also felt the timing was weird; the book focused very intently on Tan-Tan's childhood, and jumped quite abruptly to puberty, and then again to age 16 (I think). My final nitpick is that the book completely, uncritically played into the distant/bitchy/uninterested/dead mother trope. Tan-Tan's relationship with her father is obviously complicated enough, but the flatness of her mother (who I would have liked to know more about!) was disappointing.
Pros: I adored Tan-Tan. The worldbuildling was fantastic. The entire book was written in Caribbean dialect, and it worked incredibly well. I loved just about everything about the future-space-Caribbean. Overall, it was a joy to read. I can't recommend it enough.
Cons: I loved this book. It'd be 5/5, but I absolutely hate stories about child abuse and incest in which the abusee gets pregnant and, at the end, has a miraculously healing birth. I don't buy it and I'm not into it. I also felt the timing was weird; the book focused very intently on Tan-Tan's childhood, and jumped quite abruptly to puberty, and then again to age 16 (I think). My final nitpick is that the book completely, uncritically played into the distant/bitchy/uninterested/dead mother trope. Tan-Tan's relationship with her father is obviously complicated enough, but the flatness of her mother (who I would have liked to know more about!) was disappointing.