A review by katie_greenwinginmymouth
Maroons by adrienne maree brown

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

This second book of the Grievers trilogy developed the story beautifully - having gathered and documented the stories of those affected by the H-8 pandemic Dune reckons with her aloneness and starts to look outwards to find other survivors and build community. These books clearly build on adrienne maree brown’s approach to real life community organising and offer a transformative alternative to the usual dystopian narrative of lone survivors pitting themselves against whoever is left struggling to survive. The story is also abundantly, expansively queer and has many nourishing examples of found family, and (unsurprisingly given maree brown’s Pleasure Activism approach) the most healthy and pleasure-focused negotiation of  sex I have ever read in a book. Honestly the sex scenes bang (lol). This is exactly the book we need right now as we negotiate numerous hellscapes of our own.