queasyuncle
mood(y) reader / ur (above) avg 30s midwest mama • breaking up w GR, on fable & storygraph but my goodness, i like it here •
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The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon
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it is 1am and i just finished. i am heart broken & slack jawed & gut punched & overfilled with anguish.
i’ll return when i’m feeling more coherent but i want to document the literal painful pang of my heart after closing the back cover of this book.
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The Reformatory
Tananarive Due
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i’m gonna dnf if new people with insane last names don’t stop having some very important conversations about other people who i also do not recognize. like how can there even be a need for this many people to be name dropped at 14% into a novel this feels criminal
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House of Bone and Rain
Gabino Iglesias
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i’m gonna dnf if new people with insane last names don’t stop having some very important conversations about other people who i also do not recognize. like how can there even be a need for this many people to be name dropped at 14% into a novel this feels criminal
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The Bone Orchard
Sara A. Mueller
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queasyuncle commented on queasyuncle's review of Poverty, by America
a potentially devastating read. initially i appreciated the approach of the novel trying to steer away from naming the overt racism responsible for much of this, but i can also see that not naming Racism w a capital R feels like a disingenuous discussion of poverty as a whole. i loved much of the beginning of this because of how incredibly straightforward it was & how passionate & plain Desmond writes. informative & impactful in an easy to digest manner. toward the end, parts or sections of chapters seemed long winded and/or repetitive which left the last bits wanting. i did feel the purpose & passion in the chapters that urged me to DO SOMETHING but also felt disappointed with the suggestions of action in the end of the book. if our politics (and racism) got us here. it's a scam to suggest voting as a way out of this damn mess.
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the imagery in this book was absolutely stunning. the metaphors soul crushing. i don't think it was a particularly slow start but took me a minute to get into, but by 30% in, i was hooked. it accomplished so much in such a short journey! the action and adrenaline of the writing & the BATTLE and JOURNEY matched with maryse's narration & perspective - incredible. important ass story disguised as some dystopian (and real) past but with an undercurrent of today's america fueled by hatred. stellar.
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Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall
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a book touting polyamory & mfmmm should not be as boring as this nearly 600 pg monstrosity was.
the subject matter is largely about boring yt young adults with (boring) yt young adult problems, like jessica fighting with her mom for 200 pages. jessica was meant to have a redemption arc and i guess did? in that she switched friend groups, but the entirety of the book & the relationships depicted hinge on jessica being a “better person”. she never seemed to answer for being a mega bitch in high school and now she’s doing group activities with the little weirdos. i feel like there was too much character work to make the boys exist outside of sex and nearly all of it fell short. baaaasically, the smut was fine but literally everything else and event in the novel fell far short. also? not much happened in terms “group activities” with more than 1-2 individuals at once - even the smut felt less satisfying by the time it was over.
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The Losers: Part One
Harley Laroux
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