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Algeria Is Beautiful Like America by Olivia Burton
adventurous
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Evocative look on the repercussions of colonization and how we may learn and grow from our own part/complacency in it.
Content Warnings
Moderate: War, Torture, and Colonisation
Escaping Exodus: Symbiosis by Nicky Drayden
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pregnancy, Body horror, and Classism
Moderate: Colonisation, Child death, Grief, Sexual content, Death, War, Panic attacks/disorders, and Infidelity
Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 1 by Ryoko Kui
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
Black Punk Now by Chris L. Terry, James Spooner
hopeful
informative
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
Excellently crafted and organized; beautifully illustrated; informative and punk as fuck. I would recommend this to everyone. I’m thankful for this wonderfully written, subversive text~
Like Thunder by Nnedi Okorafor
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
So, I have made it my goal to read through all of Nnedi Okorafor’s works as I have loved everything I’ve read by her. But… this was the first book to give me pause. We are back in the world first introduced in Shadow Speaker which I loved, but in a different perspective—Dikéogu’s. Dikéogu had a terrible past—being sold into slavery. And in Shadow Speaker he found himself and became empowered—both literally and figuratively. But… in Like Thunder, he felt like an old curmudgeon. He had some sentiments that felt disrespectful to burqa wearing individuals and sex workers and I couldn’t feel the necessity of including those in the book unless to highlight a dated and unacceptable way of thinking? I know he eventually comes around for various reasons (after seeing that the father of his burqa wearing lover wasn’t a controlling machismo and that the sex worker was kind) but it still felt weird to read. Apart from that… the storyline kind of pittered on with a whole section of the story being obscured because the main character blacked out. And the resolution/fight/reclamation of Ginen was very anticlimactic to me. Though the characters remained the same in both books, they seemed unrelated to each other in their mood/sentiments. Sorry to have not liked this one but…