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tangleroot_eli's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Graphic: Gun violence and War
Moderate: Death, Racism, Slavery, Xenophobia, Blood, and Murder
Minor: Racial slurs
Moderate: Mind control, Nonconsensual drug usetales_told_in_gold's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Racism, and Slavery
Minor: Racial slurs
takarakei's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Gun violence, Racism, and Violence
Moderate: Death, Slavery, and Kidnapping
Minor: Blood and Death of parent
_forestofpages's review against another edition
- 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
Moderate: Gun violence, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, and Fire/Fire injury
ran_sophia's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Slavery, and Violence
Moderate: Racism, Torture, Kidnapping, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death of parent
thecriticalreader's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Moderate: Racism and Slavery
Minor: Gun violence, Blood, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
2treads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Minor: Death, Gun violence, Slavery, Death of parent, and War
mengzhenreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Graphic: Gun violence, Racism, and Violence
Moderate: Death and Slavery
Minor: Blood, Kidnapping, and Death of parent
shaythereader's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
"The magic of those old Afrikin gods is part of this city, ma maman used to say, buried in its bones and roots with the slaves that built it, making the ground and air and waterways sacred land. Only we forgot the names that went with that power we brought over here."
This is a retrofuturistic story that takes place in New Orleans. We follow a young orphaned girl who lives on the street through an adventure to rescue a kidnapped scientist.
There are visions and gods that follow and protect her.
I enjoyed the story, but I feel like I wanted more. I needed to know more about the world and the Sci fi elements.
Graphic: Death and Gun violence
tigger89's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Something else I think he did well was the incidental diversity. It was never particularly important to the story that a character was bisexual or had a prosthetic; rather, they just existed in the world, as they have every right to. The author's use of dialect, which is present on nearly every line of dialogue, might bother some readers. I never had a problem following the speech, but if it's a problem for you, there's no escape from it.
One thing I didn't like was less the fault of the book and more a problem with the marketing/cover copy, and that was that I had been promised an airship adventure. Unfortunately, that's not what this book is about. This book is the prequel to the airship adventure(sadly, not yet written), but is itself very firmly grounded. It features sky pirates, but is not a sky pirate adventure. Maybe one day he'll revisit this setting and we'll get to see Jacqueline all grown up and ready to take to the skies.
Graphic: Gun violence and Racism
Moderate: Slavery, Violence, and Kidnapping
Minor: Sexual content and Death of parent