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Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
5.0
This book perfectly puts together science fiction and a needed discussion on racism, both societally and within this genre, via the multiple time periods it’s set in.
The Power by Naomi Alderman
4.0
I loved every second of reading this book, HOWEVER, the ending felt rushed and incomplete. I’m a huge fan of a moment where the author breaks the fourth wall and brings reality into the story but I wanted to know how everything came to fruition. What happened with the wars? What happened to Tunde? I’m also a huge fan of books with cliff hanger endings but this one, again, felt incomplete.
Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell
4.0
I was excited to get back into the Simon Snow series just to see Simon and Baz together but I think because most of the book had the fear of the two of them possibly breaking up I couldn’t enjoy the two of them as much. I loved the fantasy and the world as much as I would, I just wish they were as in love as when we left them.
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
5.0
This book was so fun to read. At times it felt like reading a text message full of drama your best friend had just sent you and other times it felt like reading professional book review essays. Everything that is discussed within this book ties together so beautifully by the end, it’s so brilliant.
Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell
5.0
I feel like this book ended in such a nice little bow but also left room for the readers to speculate about what else the characters could be up to and I LOVE that.
Dry by Jarrod Shusterman, Neal Shusterman
5.0
This book is so terrifying that it just keeps you reading. But it’s terrifying because it’s so real, it’s so especially real because of this pandemic. We saw this, we lived through so much of this. Humanity is only as good as the worst parts of it and to read a book about people going through something similar to the pandemic is wild. It’s like viewing our world through a goldfish bowl.
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green, David Levithan
2.0
I’m super unsure of when this book came out but one of the main supporting characters is a gross stereotypical representation of gay men and is fat shamed throughout the whole book. The only thing satisfying about this book was Tiny getting some kind of gratitude for being the incredible friend that he is at the end. This book is a mess and the “Will Grayson” convention that it has of going back and forth between the two Will Grayson’s has no purpose. The message of the book could have been told with one story line and written as a novella instead.
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
3.0
This book is so incredibly confusing but so incredible at the same time. It’s very clearly an analogy to the creation of the world and the planets that’s mapped out in the First Testament of the Bible, to me, and also an analogy to the seven deadly sins. I don’t think I really realized that until I was around 60-70% through the book, though, and that’s why I gave it a lower score.
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