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A review by unwound_reader
The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder by Sarah J. Harris
5.0
4.5
This book took me a VERY long time to read because of the writing style but it was worth it. This book was so interesting and not at all what I expected. Loses a half a point for the stereotyping throughout and sympathizing with an abuser at the end of the book.
Representation: Autism, face blindness, synesthesia.
Quality of representation: the autism representation was fairly good especially considering the author is not autistic herself. It’s a bit stereotypical (white, male, child, savant) and was very infantilized at moments but it wasn’t over bearing. ((I cannot speak to the quality of the synesthesia or face blindness representation))
Trigger warnings: murder, violence, death of a parent, ableism, bullying, CSA, pedophilia, abuse, gore, etc.
This book took me a VERY long time to read because of the writing style but it was worth it. This book was so interesting and not at all what I expected. Loses a half a point for the stereotyping throughout and sympathizing with an abuser at the end of the book.
Representation: Autism, face blindness, synesthesia.
Quality of representation: the autism representation was fairly good especially considering the author is not autistic herself. It’s a bit stereotypical (white, male, child, savant) and was very infantilized at moments but it wasn’t over bearing. ((I cannot speak to the quality of the synesthesia or face blindness representation))
Trigger warnings: murder, violence, death of a parent, ableism, bullying, CSA, pedophilia, abuse, gore, etc.