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Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White
5.0
This book is the ultimate horror book for queer people looking for more representation. The execution of this book is beyond anything I can describe - but it's so familiar to me and I appreciate every word in this book. This is the best semi-gore and horror but I've read so far.
Heartstopper Volume 2 by Alice Oseman
5.0
This one is so cute and shows a developing new relationship and a person coming to terms with their sexual identity.
Heartstopper: Volume Three by Alice Oseman
5.0
This one made me so giddy, but near the ending it turns a little dark so check TWs!! Great read.
Heartstopper Volume 4 by Alice Oseman
5.0
This one was by far the best of the volumes as it shines a light on mental illness and portrays a way that relationships can't be the 'save all' for everything. And that friends and family are important out of the relationship.
Lore by Alexandra Bracken
3.0
I have a hard time bringing myself to fully enjoy this book. I wanted more details, more backstories on Iro, Castor, Van, Miles, Apollo, all the Gods, old and New, but I found myself so intrigued with Lore's internal fight with herself, her anger, and her passion to protect all of her loved ones. I wish there were more details in the fights that happened in the book. The words I read didn't provide me with a lot to imagine, but I was able to figure most of it out on my own from the areas of New York where some places were that I recognized as places I've personally been to. Overall, I wish I saw more character development with Lore. She was a great character, but she needed just a TAD bit more molding. The ending made me want more, maybe just details.
In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience by Helen Knott
4.0
This book was very emotionally opening - especially to sexual assault survivors who still struggle today to believe that their assault wasn't their fault. Helen Knott opens up about her problems with addiction and the trauma of being a SA survivor, but also about the beauty of beginning to heal. I encourage any native woman to read this not only just to add it to their reading list, but to hold the words close to their heart. Some sections are traumatizing if your wounds have not healed, and I would just warn that you should take a breather, because this is a heavy book, but yet so beautiful.
Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
5.0
This book is a series of stories from moments in David's life, who I now assume is an older man looking back at his life. The stories are not linear, and much like most Native American families, the stories do not have to be in order for them to be taken as a lesson. We follow David in all aspects of life from being a young boy, an adult fighting drug addiction, a time where his best friend was the person he went to for not only pills and money, but because he had no one else, and then finally, an older man recalling the time he went blind so he can tell his doctor why he things he may have cataracts. Each story is raw and leads you to the realization that these stories are the ones that shape David the most. I'm so incredibly pleased with the authors use of his language, spelled phonetically to be accessible to not only his other kin, but to those reading as well.
Heartstopper Volume 1 by Alice Oseman
5.0
This is such a sweet book - the beginning of a great friendship, but it develops into something deeper and it's so sweet!
The Slob by Aron Beauregard
4.0
This book, from start to finish, was a completely wild ride. The beginning started off with a daughter who cleaned because her parents never did, all while living with a bipolar, manic sister. Vera grows up and starts working/volunteering for a veterans alcoholics anonymous group where she meets this guy named Daniel. The relationship started off with him being quiet and her trying to make him laugh and I found it so sweet that she wanted to make him smile and laugh, and feel the things he felt during the war he fought through. They marry rather quickly, and buy a house and try for a baby. To earn extra cash for their child's arrival, Vera decides to go forward with being a door to door salemens and that's when the story goes dark. It was so disgusting and horrifying, something of nightmares. I was literally sick to my stomach. There were so much blood and guts and s*xual assault and cannibalism that it was definitely hard to stomach. 4/5 because the story was quick and fast, but everything packed a punch.