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challenging
informative
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.75 | I actually really liked this!!
I went into this already knowing the big spoiler/reveal & mainly read this to see how I felt about the representation of it, & I actually felt pleasantly surprised by it. This was a good read!!
The cat POV 🫡🫡🫡😤😤😤🫶🫶🫶
I went into this already knowing the big spoiler/reveal & mainly read this to see how I felt about the representation of it, & I actually felt pleasantly surprised by it. This was a good read!!
The cat POV 🫡🫡🫡😤😤😤🫶🫶🫶
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
Agonizing 😃😃😃😃
Rosier literally GET BEHIND ME
Rosier literally GET BEHIND ME
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
Positives:
- I loved the Hunger Games meets Last of Us meets Gearbreakers/Crier War meets like CaitVi from Arcane vibes
- this book did have me locked in and invested & I did really enjoy reading it
Negatives:
- I really wanted more world building and lore, it felt almost too carbon copy Hunger Games at time and I wish there was more explanation.
- the romance felt very Insta-lovey and kinda cringe, while there was some good sapphic pining and yearning and the like, it all happened so suddenly I feel I never reaaaaallly was all that invested in it?
- I loved the Hunger Games meets Last of Us meets Gearbreakers/Crier War meets like CaitVi from Arcane vibes
- this book did have me locked in and invested & I did really enjoy reading it
Negatives:
- I really wanted more world building and lore, it felt almost too carbon copy Hunger Games at time and I wish there was more explanation.
- the romance felt very Insta-lovey and kinda cringe, while there was some good sapphic pining and yearning and the like, it all happened so suddenly I feel I never reaaaaallly was all that invested in it?
challenging
medium-paced
😬😬😬😬 hear me out
Positives:
- Lesbians being very Lesbian <333
- Raging against the machine with the gals gays and theys
- arcane: specifically CaitVi vibes mostly, but also it is there in the world
Negatives:
- way too confusing for me, honestly felt like I was reading simlish and reminded me a lot of Gideon the Ninth and I just don’t think that vibe is for me even though I really wish it was
- I quite frankly left this book not understanding a single thing I read really and not really in a good way??
I wish I liked this :(
Positives:
- Lesbians being very Lesbian <333
- Raging against the machine with the gals gays and theys
- arcane: specifically CaitVi vibes mostly, but also it is there in the world
Negatives:
- way too confusing for me, honestly felt like I was reading simlish and reminded me a lot of Gideon the Ninth and I just don’t think that vibe is for me even though I really wish it was
- I quite frankly left this book not understanding a single thing I read really and not really in a good way??
I wish I liked this :(
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
Quite frankly, this was the most devastating book I’ve ever read in my life & I cried my eyes out every time I listened to it. Walter will live in my heart forever. The world would maybe be a better place if more people read books like this; I don’t understand how you could read this and not come away changed, feeling something, and desiring/advocating for change.
I feel so many people don’t understand how huge of a problem the prison justice system is, and how disproportionately is affects black and brown people. Some of it is due to ignorance, and some due to not believing it could possibly be as bad as people say, or outright hatred etc., but listening to these accounts of the absolutely heinous ways these people were utterly failed and abused by the governments and systems that are supposed to protect them is so deeply incomprehensible.
Walters case is so gut wrenching and heartbreaking and there’s hundreds of thousands of people just like him in the exact same situation who are wrongfully committed, put into prisons where they face unspeakable and vile levels of abuse, and develop deep trauma and pain from this loss of life and robbery of life if you will that completely changes them. Many of whom end up dying on death row.
Marsha’s case also absolutely broke me. This woman suffered the trauma of giving birth to a stillborn baby in a home birth after being unable to afford pre natal care, and was accused of killing her baby and without a fair trial immediately placed on death row????? Un-fuckingbelievable.
I knew that this was a problem, but reading something like this where there are so many countless experiences from Walter or Marsha, to mentally ill children tried as adults for crimes they couldn’t even fully comprehend and placed on death row, disabled children tried as adults and placed on death row where they were repeatedly raped and assaulted in prison etc….. it’s so different reading about it so viscerally. I’m at a complete loss for words for the utter horror and thinking of all of the countless other people in similar situations like this where this is happening to them & I don’t understand how humans have batted an eye to it for so long and let this happen. We have created a system that perpetuates legal eugenics, and legal slavery & this is not some “oh it was way in the past” situation, these cases are from the 2010’s.
I really and truly wish this book was a required reading for humanity.
I feel so many people don’t understand how huge of a problem the prison justice system is, and how disproportionately is affects black and brown people. Some of it is due to ignorance, and some due to not believing it could possibly be as bad as people say, or outright hatred etc., but listening to these accounts of the absolutely heinous ways these people were utterly failed and abused by the governments and systems that are supposed to protect them is so deeply incomprehensible.
Walters case is so gut wrenching and heartbreaking and there’s hundreds of thousands of people just like him in the exact same situation who are wrongfully committed, put into prisons where they face unspeakable and vile levels of abuse, and develop deep trauma and pain from this loss of life and robbery of life if you will that completely changes them. Many of whom end up dying on death row.
Marsha’s case also absolutely broke me. This woman suffered the trauma of giving birth to a stillborn baby in a home birth after being unable to afford pre natal care, and was accused of killing her baby and without a fair trial immediately placed on death row????? Un-fuckingbelievable.
I knew that this was a problem, but reading something like this where there are so many countless experiences from Walter or Marsha, to mentally ill children tried as adults for crimes they couldn’t even fully comprehend and placed on death row, disabled children tried as adults and placed on death row where they were repeatedly raped and assaulted in prison etc….. it’s so different reading about it so viscerally. I’m at a complete loss for words for the utter horror and thinking of all of the countless other people in similar situations like this where this is happening to them & I don’t understand how humans have batted an eye to it for so long and let this happen. We have created a system that perpetuates legal eugenics, and legal slavery & this is not some “oh it was way in the past” situation, these cases are from the 2010’s.
I really and truly wish this book was a required reading for humanity.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
slow-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Godddddd Fitz and the Fool are just boys in LOVE
dark
medium-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was so not what I was expecting….. also the stark contrast of loving Slewfoot to reading this next………. I’ll give it to Brom his writing has definitely really grown since this lol.
Positives:
- I genuinely really loved the Krampus Folklore and Norse Mythology in this. It was interwoven in really interesting ways & I ended up learning a lot about Krampus that I didn’t know or expect & that was really fun.
- how genre-bending this is??? Sure, one could call this fantasy horror technically to categorize it, but to it’s core this is an action movie vibe not unlike John Wick??? Lmao???
- I was invested in the story & all my incoming hatred aside, I did actually have fun reading this
Negatives
- first and foremost, the racist characterizations of Indigenous people in here. It made me question Slewfoot as well, as Slewfoot also had some dodgy moments that at the time I attributed to “white man pitifully attempting technical historical accuracy but instead being unnecessarily kinda racist,” but this had like very explicit racism in that was pretty wild. I do still think it was coming from a place of ignorance and stupidity, and not violent intentional hatred per say, but that still doesn’t excuse it. The Indigenous characters in this are absolutely characterized as “savage” & “creature like,” are only really called “Indians” the whole time, & at one point are even referred too as “injuns” which feels crazy for 2012. His writing has definitely grown a lot since this, but I scoured the Internet and could not find him acknowledging his racism at all & I’m left feeling very 🤨🤨🤨.
- secondly, the misogyny & “written by a man vibes.” How disappointing this was after how brilliantly he wrote his female characters in Slewfoot…. I had so much blind faith and trust in this man after reading that book I just bought the majority of his backlist because I needed more from him. The male protagonist in this is actually so insufferable; his whole personality is just “ :( I’m a bad husband, and a shitty dad…. Poor me.” & we’re just supposed to sympathize with him??? And the other man in this book is even worse (though he is actually characterized as a villain at least.) The women in this are written as extensions of, and accessories for the men & have not a whole lot of depth (one of them is kind of interesting, but even she felt very written by a man.) I’m not going to lie, in the end this really just gave white trailer trash soap opera & I can’t even say it “has Ethel Cain vibes” cause it’s just men being horrible, for no reason, written by a man. Even Santa and Krampus kinda sucked and were shitty men lmaaaao.
Positives:
- I genuinely really loved the Krampus Folklore and Norse Mythology in this. It was interwoven in really interesting ways & I ended up learning a lot about Krampus that I didn’t know or expect & that was really fun.
- how genre-bending this is??? Sure, one could call this fantasy horror technically to categorize it, but to it’s core this is an action movie vibe not unlike John Wick??? Lmao???
- I was invested in the story & all my incoming hatred aside, I did actually have fun reading this
Negatives
- first and foremost, the racist characterizations of Indigenous people in here. It made me question Slewfoot as well, as Slewfoot also had some dodgy moments that at the time I attributed to “white man pitifully attempting technical historical accuracy but instead being unnecessarily kinda racist,” but this had like very explicit racism in that was pretty wild. I do still think it was coming from a place of ignorance and stupidity, and not violent intentional hatred per say, but that still doesn’t excuse it. The Indigenous characters in this are absolutely characterized as “savage” & “creature like,” are only really called “Indians” the whole time, & at one point are even referred too as “injuns” which feels crazy for 2012. His writing has definitely grown a lot since this, but I scoured the Internet and could not find him acknowledging his racism at all & I’m left feeling very 🤨🤨🤨.
- secondly, the misogyny & “written by a man vibes.” How disappointing this was after how brilliantly he wrote his female characters in Slewfoot…. I had so much blind faith and trust in this man after reading that book I just bought the majority of his backlist because I needed more from him. The male protagonist in this is actually so insufferable; his whole personality is just “ :( I’m a bad husband, and a shitty dad…. Poor me.” & we’re just supposed to sympathize with him??? And the other man in this book is even worse (though he is actually characterized as a villain at least.) The women in this are written as extensions of, and accessories for the men & have not a whole lot of depth (one of them is kind of interesting, but even she felt very written by a man.) I’m not going to lie, in the end this really just gave white trailer trash soap opera & I can’t even say it “has Ethel Cain vibes” cause it’s just men being horrible, for no reason, written by a man. Even Santa and Krampus kinda sucked and were shitty men lmaaaao.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Abandonment
- the whimsy writing is there, but this is definitely no starless sea…
- there were so many characters that I didn’t care about, I also didn’t care about the plot, I sort of cared about the romance but I didn’t really care about Marco & that just kind of left Celia & even she felt pretty bland?
- the interwoven whimsical chapters telling another story were pretty and felt like a fairytale, but it just wasn’t enough to keep my locked in unfortunately
- there were so many characters that I didn’t care about, I also didn’t care about the plot, I sort of cared about the romance but I didn’t really care about Marco & that just kind of left Celia & even she felt pretty bland?
- the interwoven whimsical chapters telling another story were pretty and felt like a fairytale, but it just wasn’t enough to keep my locked in unfortunately
adventurous
dark
hopeful
tense
fast-paced
I know this book doesn’t deserve the rating I’m giving it, but I have to give it some props for how invested it had me lmao.
Positives:
- oh Jacks, how I love you
- I was quite literally on the edge of my seat the entire time.
- oh jacks and Evangeline my beloveds
- the drama…. The flare…….
- whimsy and all that
Negatives:
- every single Apollo POV was actually unbearable
- once again way too convenient and corny and cringe but like I still had fun
I enjoyed the ending to this trilogy!!
Positives:
- oh Jacks, how I love you
- I was quite literally on the edge of my seat the entire time.
- oh jacks and Evangeline my beloveds
- the drama…. The flare…….
- whimsy and all that
Negatives:
- every single Apollo POV was actually unbearable
- once again way too convenient and corny and cringe but like I still had fun
I enjoyed the ending to this trilogy!!
DNF
I just know I’m not gonna like this, off the bat it’s a vibe thing & i know I’m not being fair but 🤷
I just know I’m not gonna like this, off the bat it’s a vibe thing & i know I’m not being fair but 🤷