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Aya and the Star Chaser by Radiya Hafiza
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
I absolutely loved Radiya Hafiza’s Rumaysa duology, so I had high hopes for this book – and overall I did enjoy it, even though I don’t think it quite lived up to the author’s earlier work!
This is a lovely little story about family and courage, and I love that the core of it is really Aya’s relationship with her mother. I think a lot of middle grade readers will relate to her frustrations at the secrets her mother is keeping, and the themes of beginning to wonder who you really are.
I would say this is the kind of middle grade that’s intended for children and may not necessarily work for adults – mainly because it’s extremely generic, in the sense that absolutely nothing that happened was a surprise to me. Honestly, I would expect an intelligent middle grade reader to be able to predict the ‘twist’ fairly easily too, but equally I don’t necessarily thing that’s a bad thing, and just because a book is predictable doesn’t negate the value in the themes and characters!
The main thing that didn’t work for me in this book was the pacing. We’re 50% through the book before the plot really gets going, and I felt Aya learned to use her powers far too easily! At one point, I felt certain there would need to be a sequel to allow enough time for everything that needed to happen, but there isn’t: we get to the final standoff and Aya suddenly has full control of her powers and is able to defeat the Big Bad almost instantly, despite having had no real training or practice. [This feels like Not a Spoiler because, again: entirely predictable!] Maybe I’ve just read too many books like this, but it just rang hollow to me to have everything wrapped up so easily!
Still, overall a very sweet and beautifully illustrated little tale, and I probably will be getting this for my sisters to read at some point.
This is a lovely little story about family and courage, and I love that the core of it is really Aya’s relationship with her mother. I think a lot of middle grade readers will relate to her frustrations at the secrets her mother is keeping, and the themes of beginning to wonder who you really are.
I would say this is the kind of middle grade that’s intended for children and may not necessarily work for adults – mainly because it’s extremely generic, in the sense that absolutely nothing that happened was a surprise to me. Honestly, I would expect an intelligent middle grade reader to be able to predict the ‘twist’ fairly easily too, but equally I don’t necessarily thing that’s a bad thing, and just because a book is predictable doesn’t negate the value in the themes and characters!
The main thing that didn’t work for me in this book was the pacing. We’re 50% through the book before the plot really gets going, and I felt Aya learned to use her powers far too easily! At one point, I felt certain there would need to be a sequel to allow enough time for everything that needed to happen, but there isn’t: we get to the final standoff and Aya suddenly has full control of her powers and is able to defeat the Big Bad almost instantly, despite having had no real training or practice. [This feels like Not a Spoiler because, again: entirely predictable!] Maybe I’ve just read too many books like this, but it just rang hollow to me to have everything wrapped up so easily!
Still, overall a very sweet and beautifully illustrated little tale, and I probably will be getting this for my sisters to read at some point.
The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch by Melinda Taub
adventurous
funny
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
It’s been almost four months since I read this, and I already remember very little of what I thought about it. I admit that might be more of a reflection on my state of mind since early October, than a judgement on the book itself, but it does make this a short review!
My main gripe with this was the structure: epistolary and relating the past and present simultaneously, to the extent that it’s almost dual timelines. There is a huge amount of plot packed into this book, but the way it jumps around somehow makes it feel SO slow at the same time, and it took me a long time to get into the story because of that. Plus, there’s a certain reveal towards the end that makes the reason for the flashbacks seem so pointless that I felt retroactively even more annoyed at having had to struggle through it!
That said, I did really enjoy the overall story. Melinda Taub’s care for Austen’s work and her attention to detail are so evident, and I really appreciated her retelling choices. Lydia is still flighty and immature, but softened by kindness and a willingness to admit her mistakes, and aside from getting a little frustrated with her epistolary voice, I did enjoy following her as a heroine. The addition of witchcraft also felt really natural, and I had a lot of fun with Taub’s takes on Kitty Bennet and Wickham!
So all in all, even though I would have enjoyed this more as a linear narrative, I did still have a good time, and am even more keen to get hold of Melinda Taub’s first book now too!
Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr by Sara Khan, Nadiyah Suyatna
informative
5.0
Thank you so much to @quartokids for sending me a copy of this lovely (and gorgeously illustrated!) little book! 💜 Swipe to see a couple of my favourite pages.
I’ve read so many ‘Islamic’ picture books that somehow manage to lose all actual religiosity, and I’m so happy to say that this one doesn’t fall into that trap at all!
I LOVE that we get to see Raya and her parents doing fun (but generic) holiday traditions like baking iftar cookies and making Ramadan cards, and *also* attending tarawih prayers and reading more Quran. AND, the book is explicit about the fact that the purpose of Ramadan is to get closer to Allah, a message which is so sadly lacking from most children’s books.
The back of the book also has activities like a quiz and recipes, as well as more detailed information about what Ramadan is all about - this would be such a great resource for adults to share with the kids in your life, both Muslim and non.
Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World Without a Bullhorn by Omkari Williams
hopeful
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
4.0
This is a really quick and useful little book about how to fit small acts of activism into your life, in a way that still has an impact.
Williams’ main point is that most of us aren’t able to make activism our full-time purpose. We each have a finite amount of time and energy to dedicate to it, so the book mostly centres around how to still make our effort worth it - things like choosing just one or two causes so that your actions can have a greater impact, focussing on deep work over shallow, and being realistic about how much you can actually do in the time you have.
The target audience for this seems to be mostly people looking for reassurance that they can make a difference. I found that it’s not so useful if you already know you want to do something, but just aren’t sure quite what (since of course the answer to that will vary for every individual reader and cause!). None of the content was really new information for me, and some of it is laid out in such basic terms that it felt almost condescending in places!
That said, having it all laid out in this kind of package is still useful. And there is some good advice here about making sure you’re able to sustain your activism in the long term - the section on shallow vs deep work in particular really spoke to a lot of thoughts I’ve been having recently.
So while this book can’t immediately equip you with everything you need to become an activist, it’s still a worthwhile read for a bit of encouragement, and perhaps to help you think a bit more deeply about what method(s) of activism might be best for you to get involved with.
Williams’ main point is that most of us aren’t able to make activism our full-time purpose. We each have a finite amount of time and energy to dedicate to it, so the book mostly centres around how to still make our effort worth it - things like choosing just one or two causes so that your actions can have a greater impact, focussing on deep work over shallow, and being realistic about how much you can actually do in the time you have.
The target audience for this seems to be mostly people looking for reassurance that they can make a difference. I found that it’s not so useful if you already know you want to do something, but just aren’t sure quite what (since of course the answer to that will vary for every individual reader and cause!). None of the content was really new information for me, and some of it is laid out in such basic terms that it felt almost condescending in places!
That said, having it all laid out in this kind of package is still useful. And there is some good advice here about making sure you’re able to sustain your activism in the long term - the section on shallow vs deep work in particular really spoke to a lot of thoughts I’ve been having recently.
So while this book can’t immediately equip you with everything you need to become an activist, it’s still a worthwhile read for a bit of encouragement, and perhaps to help you think a bit more deeply about what method(s) of activism might be best for you to get involved with.
Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
adventurous
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I really enjoyed Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries. Although it wasn’t an instant new favourite the way I was hoping, I still thought it was a fun, cosy read, and I went into the sequel with cautious optimism. And I would say overall those expectations were met: this was a solid sequel. All the things that were done well in the first book continue to be done well, and to be honest my overall thoughts are very similar to what I said this time last year!
Characters
I continue to love Emily. She’s come a long way from where she started in the first book, but she’s still prickly and awkward and struggles to express her emotions, and her character development feels so natural and real. On the other hand, I still struggle with Bambleby. His character and the romance were the weakest element of the first book for me, and that remains true. I admit it’s largely a personal taste issue, because his kind of character archetype almost never works for me, but I just never bought into their relationship. There’s no real reason for Emily’s platonic feelings towards Bambleby to flip to love so abruptly, and I could never appreciate what she saw in him!
I continue to love Emily. She’s come a long way from where she started in the first book, but she’s still prickly and awkward and struggles to express her emotions, and her character development feels so natural and real. On the other hand, I still struggle with Bambleby. His character and the romance were the weakest element of the first book for me, and that remains true. I admit it’s largely a personal taste issue, because his kind of character archetype almost never works for me, but I just never bought into their relationship. There’s no real reason for Emily’s platonic feelings towards Bambleby to flip to love so abruptly, and I could never appreciate what she saw in him!
I also have to shout out Poe, a minor side character but one who totally stole the show for me! He’s a brownie Emily befriended in the first book, who makes a reappearance here and ends up in a quasi-animal companion (fae companion?) role, and he’s utterly adorable in the way he loves Emily but is utterly bemused by her mortal ways!
Setting
When I first read the synopsis, I was really looking forward to part of this book being set in Cambridge. Unfortunately, Heather Fawcett clearly knows absolutely nothing about either the city or the university, and apparently didn’t do any research. Even aside from the ‘Cambridge’ of it all, it’s very obvious that she’s just plonked the American university system into a British-ish setting – (honestly I’m mostly surprised that her editor at Orbit didn’t pick up on this?) Also, this is probably just me, but I’m irrationally annoyed that she chose to make up a fictional bridge and cafe when the real Cambridge has numerous world-famous bridges which existed long before 1910, when the book is set!
When I first read the synopsis, I was really looking forward to part of this book being set in Cambridge. Unfortunately, Heather Fawcett clearly knows absolutely nothing about either the city or the university, and apparently didn’t do any research. Even aside from the ‘Cambridge’ of it all, it’s very obvious that she’s just plonked the American university system into a British-ish setting – (honestly I’m mostly surprised that her editor at Orbit didn’t pick up on this?) Also, this is probably just me, but I’m irrationally annoyed that she chose to make up a fictional bridge and cafe when the real Cambridge has numerous world-famous bridges which existed long before 1910, when the book is set!
That said, Heather Fawcett’s writing apparently shines most when she’s writing hostile, rural European settings, and once again I really appreciated the Alpine community she managed to evoke.
Plot/Storytelling
The plot also felt a lot more coherent here than in the first book, which I felt was a little chaotic. It’s a slightly double-edged sword, because I didn’t really care all that much about recovering Bambleby’s kingdom, but from a storytelling perspective this book is one main adventure with a much clearer arc, which I thought was an improvement.
The plot also felt a lot more coherent here than in the first book, which I felt was a little chaotic. It’s a slightly double-edged sword, because I didn’t really care all that much about recovering Bambleby’s kingdom, but from a storytelling perspective this book is one main adventure with a much clearer arc, which I thought was an improvement.
I also continue to love the way Fawcett writes fae – definitively the ‘dangerous, tricksy, play-by-their-own-rules’ old folktales kind, rather than the ‘New Adult Romantasy’ vibe. The analytical way that Emily so intentionally leans into the old stories, and how self-aware she is about how her adventure do and don’t reflect the traditions, is one of the things I love most about this series.
Again, this was a solid 4-star read. It’s cosy fantasy in the truest sense, in that it has very little in terms of deeper thematic content or anything it’s ‘saying’, but it’s atmospheric and engaging and overall a good time. The third book seems like it’s going to be largely centred around the romance, but although I’m not terribly keen on that aspect, there’s enough to enjoy in Emily herself and in this world that I’m still looking forward to it.
Thank you to Orbit UK for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Much Ado About Nada by Uzma Jalaluddin
I have a somewhat mixed track record with Uzma Jalaluddin, and I wasn’t originally planning to request this for review – but the publisher reached out to me, and once they’d offered, I wasn’t going to say no! But having proceeded to devour the book within 24 hours, and then sit on my feelings for over a fortnight, I’m still pretty conflicted about this book.
The retelling
The first thing to say is that it’s barely a Persuasion retelling. In typical Uzma Jalaluddin fashion, it’s an extremely loose reimagining – I can see where she’s taken inspiration from Austen, but if I wasn’t looking for the connections, I probably wouldn’t have realised it was a retelling at all. Beyond being a second chance romance, the plot beats aren’t the same at all, and Nada is certainly nothing like Anne Elliot!
The heroine
I do appreciate Jalaluddin’s ability to write complex heroines, but my main feeling about Nada was just that she was messy, which is a main character type that I personally tend not to do so well with. While I did relate to some of her feelings, particularly around trying to navigate her two cultures, I mostly found her pretty unlikeable and annoying. She makes some pretty huge mistakes, both in the past and present timelines, and she just felt very immature and self-absorbed!
The romance
I also wasn’t entirely sold on the romance. While I enjoyed some of Baz and Nada’s banter, especially in the flashbacks to their original relationship, there wasn’t really much depth to their relationship beyond that. In the original Persuasion, we’re led to believe that Anne and Wentworth could have been happy if they had got married when they first wanted to. But Baz and Nada were completely wrong for each other at 21 – without spoiling anything, I was truly floored by some of the stupid decisions they made, and I absolutely cannot believe that they would have had a successful relationship if they’d stayed together at that point! And they never really discuss their relationship deeply in the present timeline either, so even though they’re both (supposedly) wiser and more mature, that doesn’t feel like enough to fix all their issues.
(That said, the overall discussion around getting married young – particularly in the context of South Asian Muslims – hit me hard and made me feel a LOT of things, so I have to give credit to the writing, even if I didn’t love the characters!)
The representation
In terms of the wider story, I always appreciate the way Uzma Jalaluddin manages to capture such a wide spectrum of ways of being Muslim (right down to her willingness to embrace the more uncommon Muslim names – among others, this book had a Bazlur Rahman, Owais, Narjis, Waqas, Firdous...) There was also zero Islamophobia or racism in this book (although a lot of Nada’s struggles have to do with navigating her South Asian-Canadian identity, it’s internal conflict rather than bigotry), which made a nice change!
However, your mileage may vary on whether you consider it halal. I would echo the reviews that say you need to stick with it at the moment where it seems to be not halal in a major way, because that does get cleared up (again, trying to avoid spoilers!) – but still, the milder moments may also stretch the boundaries of what different people consider appropriate.
So overall… I didn’t love this? But I do think a lot of that was down to personal taste, and if you like books about messy, twenty-something women who are allowed to make mistakes, it’s definitely engaging and propulsive!
(Also, this is totally irrelevant to my feelings on the book itself, but I cannot get over how misleading this title is! Every time I think about this book I'm bemused all over again that it's not a retelling of Much Ado About Nothing!)
Thank you to Atlantic Books for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
The retelling
The first thing to say is that it’s barely a Persuasion retelling. In typical Uzma Jalaluddin fashion, it’s an extremely loose reimagining – I can see where she’s taken inspiration from Austen, but if I wasn’t looking for the connections, I probably wouldn’t have realised it was a retelling at all. Beyond being a second chance romance, the plot beats aren’t the same at all, and Nada is certainly nothing like Anne Elliot!
The heroine
I do appreciate Jalaluddin’s ability to write complex heroines, but my main feeling about Nada was just that she was messy, which is a main character type that I personally tend not to do so well with. While I did relate to some of her feelings, particularly around trying to navigate her two cultures, I mostly found her pretty unlikeable and annoying. She makes some pretty huge mistakes, both in the past and present timelines, and she just felt very immature and self-absorbed!
The romance
I also wasn’t entirely sold on the romance. While I enjoyed some of Baz and Nada’s banter, especially in the flashbacks to their original relationship, there wasn’t really much depth to their relationship beyond that. In the original Persuasion, we’re led to believe that Anne and Wentworth could have been happy if they had got married when they first wanted to. But Baz and Nada were completely wrong for each other at 21 – without spoiling anything, I was truly floored by some of the stupid decisions they made, and I absolutely cannot believe that they would have had a successful relationship if they’d stayed together at that point! And they never really discuss their relationship deeply in the present timeline either, so even though they’re both (supposedly) wiser and more mature, that doesn’t feel like enough to fix all their issues.
(That said, the overall discussion around getting married young – particularly in the context of South Asian Muslims – hit me hard and made me feel a LOT of things, so I have to give credit to the writing, even if I didn’t love the characters!)
The representation
In terms of the wider story, I always appreciate the way Uzma Jalaluddin manages to capture such a wide spectrum of ways of being Muslim (right down to her willingness to embrace the more uncommon Muslim names – among others, this book had a Bazlur Rahman, Owais, Narjis, Waqas, Firdous...) There was also zero Islamophobia or racism in this book (although a lot of Nada’s struggles have to do with navigating her South Asian-Canadian identity, it’s internal conflict rather than bigotry), which made a nice change!
However, your mileage may vary on whether you consider it halal. I would echo the reviews that say you need to stick with it at the moment where it seems to be not halal in a major way, because that does get cleared up (again, trying to avoid spoilers!) – but still, the milder moments may also stretch the boundaries of what different people consider appropriate.
So overall… I didn’t love this? But I do think a lot of that was down to personal taste, and if you like books about messy, twenty-something women who are allowed to make mistakes, it’s definitely engaging and propulsive!
(Also, this is totally irrelevant to my feelings on the book itself, but I cannot get over how misleading this title is! Every time I think about this book I'm bemused all over again that it's not a retelling of Much Ado About Nothing!)
Thank you to Atlantic Books for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Bullying
Minor: Mental illness and Ableism
Depression, divorce
Safiyyah's War by Hiba Noor Khan
adventurous
emotional
informative
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
I tend to avoid 'WW2 in Britain/France' books, because I find them very samey and consider the time period overall very overdone - but apparently adding a Muslim character is the way to get me to read one, and this was wonderful!
Safiyyah was such a brilliant heroine - she's so brave and bold and curious, and Hiba Noor Khan does such a great job of capturing a child's perspective, balancing an eleven year old's worldview with the upheaval having to grow up too fast in wartime. Her relationship with her family was also so lovely, especially her grandmother (though I also wanted to know more about the family's history! Why did they move from Algeria to Spain, and then to France?)
Though I've been to the Grand Mosque of Paris, I had no idea about its history helping Jews escape the Holocaust. I love that it's the characters' foundation of faith that makes them so determined to do the right thing (we often hear about Catholic priests etc. who sheltered Jews in WW2, so I love that we get this version of that story too!), and I really appreciated how naturally Islam was woven into the story.
Ultimately this is a story about love and kindness, and doing the right thing even when it would be easier not to. Certain lines definitely felt very pointedly applicable to present day issues, but overall I love the message that this sends for both children and adult readers! Actually, this is exactly the kind of book I want adults who dismiss middle grade to read, because the writing may be <i>simple</i>, but that doesn't mean it's not effective, and the way Khan writes emotions is incredibly moving!
Thank you to NetGalley and Andersen Press for a copy in exchange for an honest review.
CW: antisemitism, Holocaust, PTSD, family separation, grief
Safiyyah was such a brilliant heroine - she's so brave and bold and curious, and Hiba Noor Khan does such a great job of capturing a child's perspective, balancing an eleven year old's worldview with the upheaval having to grow up too fast in wartime. Her relationship with her family was also so lovely, especially her grandmother (though I also wanted to know more about the family's history! Why did they move from Algeria to Spain, and then to France?)
Though I've been to the Grand Mosque of Paris, I had no idea about its history helping Jews escape the Holocaust. I love that it's the characters' foundation of faith that makes them so determined to do the right thing (we often hear about Catholic priests etc. who sheltered Jews in WW2, so I love that we get this version of that story too!), and I really appreciated how naturally Islam was woven into the story.
Ultimately this is a story about love and kindness, and doing the right thing even when it would be easier not to. Certain lines definitely felt very pointedly applicable to present day issues, but overall I love the message that this sends for both children and adult readers! Actually, this is exactly the kind of book I want adults who dismiss middle grade to read, because the writing may be <i>simple</i>, but that doesn't mean it's not effective, and the way Khan writes emotions is incredibly moving!
Thank you to NetGalley and Andersen Press for a copy in exchange for an honest review.
CW: antisemitism, Holocaust, PTSD, family separation, grief
Content Warnings
Graphic: Antisemitism and Grief
The Kingdom over the Sea by Zohra Nabi
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
This book was such a delight! Zohra Nabi’s writing is just beautiful: it’s so evocative and it flows so smoothly, and I loved being in the world she had created! It’s loosely Middle Eastern-inspired, and you can just *feel* the colours and flavours of it all!
The idea of a portal fantasy where our world is the alternative was so fun - almost a reverse-changeling type story - and I loved how it was Yara’s real-world campaigning experience that gave her the skills she needed to succeed in her home world!
Yara herself was my favourite kind of ‘I will do the right thing if it kills me’ kind of main character, and her determination and resourcefulness drew me in right away! The trio of friends she collects was also so charming, and I really appreciated the way they all balance each other’s impulses.
The story is propulsive and engrossing; one could argue that it’s a little rushed at the end, but I didn’t really mind it! The ending definitely does felt a bit inconclusive though - it definitely feels like it’s setting up for a sequel, though I can’t find any mention of one upcoming.
Thank you to NetGalley and Simon and Schuster for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.
The idea of a portal fantasy where our world is the alternative was so fun - almost a reverse-changeling type story - and I loved how it was Yara’s real-world campaigning experience that gave her the skills she needed to succeed in her home world!
Yara herself was my favourite kind of ‘I will do the right thing if it kills me’ kind of main character, and her determination and resourcefulness drew me in right away! The trio of friends she collects was also so charming, and I really appreciated the way they all balance each other’s impulses.
The story is propulsive and engrossing; one could argue that it’s a little rushed at the end, but I didn’t really mind it! The ending definitely does felt a bit inconclusive though - it definitely feels like it’s setting up for a sequel, though I can’t find any mention of one upcoming.
Thank you to NetGalley and Simon and Schuster for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death of parent
Lioness of Punjab by Anita Jari Kharbanda
fast-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
An interesting story, but slightly awkward execution.
I’d never heard of Mai Bhago before, and I know almost nothing about Sikh history, so from that perspective this was a really interesting story – I loved all the historical and cultural details about rural life in pre-colonial India, which the author has clearly researched a lot.
However, the writing was fairly clunky and didn’t always flow very smoothly: despite the amount of death and grief in the story, I struggled to feel much emotion towards any of the characters (except for in one particular memorable scene). I also found the way Punjabi words and phrases were incorporated to feel slightly awkward: they were often just dropped into the text in a way that felt unnatural (‘Your salwar-kameez is soni’), or translated immediately, disrupting the flow of the narrative ('wildflowers… flashing petals brighter than a deeva, a lamp').
Mai Bhago herself also wasn’t my favourite, and I wonder if I might have got on a bit better with the book if it hadn’t been in first person. Her character seemed simultaneously somewhat inconsistent, with her changing her position on certain things seemingly from page to page, but also quite flat – she doesn’t develop much, and I honestly couldn’t tell how old she was supposed to be by the end. I also didn’t love the aggressive ‘not like other girls’ overtones in the first half: though that message is slightly softened by the end, particularly after Mai Bhago gets married herself, she never really makes an effort to understand the positions of the women around her who do want to get married and who value beauty/enjoy cooking and sewing/etc.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Grief, and War
Minor: Sexual assault
Unraveller by Frances Hardinge
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Forced institutionalization and Emotional abuse
Trauma