babayulia 's review for:

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

5.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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I am still working on a more in depth review of this book but want to put a placeholder here so it’s clear that this was a 5-star read for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail