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How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin

5 reviews

gilnean's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Hate crime, Infidelity, Vomit, Grief, Alcohol, and Colonisation

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Terminal illness, Excrement, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Cultural appropriation

dreamerfreak's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Racism, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Gun violence, Infertility, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Child death, Drug use, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Slavery, Suicide, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

bookishmillennial's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

disclaimer: I don’t really give starred reviews. I hope my reviews provide enough information to let you know if a book is for you or not. Find me here: https://linktr.ee/bookishmillennial

I absolutely adored this collection of short science and speculative fiction stories! Some stood out to me or impacted me more than others, but that's just how short story collections go. NK Jemisin is such an excellent writer, and I will continue to read anything by her, even her grocery shopping lists!

My favorites were:

• The Ones Who Stay and Fight
• The Effluent Engine
• Cloud Dragon Skies
• The Trojan Girl
• The Storyteller's Replacement
• The Brides of Heaven
• The Elevator Dancer
• On the Banks of Riber Lex
• The You Train

I listened to the audiobook and I *highly* recommend that format. All of the narrators (Shayna Small, Gail Nelson-Holgate, Robin Eller, Ron Butler, Kevin Stillwell, Je Nie Fleming, Jeannette Illidge) were fantastic!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Gun violence, Racism, Rape, and Murder

Moderate: Racial slurs, Slavery, and Police brutality

Minor: Sexual content

rnbhargava's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This is a wonderful collection of short stories by NK Jemisin. The content is thus varied and so are the triggers. There’s a good amount of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Magical Realism, even supernatural horror in this collection. It’s not perfect. Some of the stories are arguably too short, basically the germ of an introduction or an idea. Some others are perhaps slightly plodding, though I enjoyed quite a few of the stories regardless of length.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

There’s a lot of content warnings across all these stories, I honestly probably missed some. That said, I loved the majority of Jemisin’s shorts in this book and I look forward to reading even more books from her.