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Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

3 reviews

monarchbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

I don't know what I was expecting going into this book but it was not what I got. Every page shocked me. A bit wordy and heavy on metaphors. Unexpected queer rep. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Homophobia, Kidnapping, and Alcohol

Minor: Deadnaming

pageglue's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Uggghh so much potential! A great premise ruined by this piece of shit author.

Meddling Kids is basically an adult horror Scooby Doo novel, featuring the kinds of shenanigans that the gang got up to. The only praise I’ll give is that the plot was very gripping, enough to take me to end of this 450 page book, but even that was spoilt by its stupid ending.

While the writing was often cinematic, it also drew a lot of attention to itself, for instance ‘the wheezer (a monster) didn’t even make it until the end of this paragraph.” There were also these random switches to giving the dialogue in the form of a screenplay, including directions for the actors in parenthesis, which was just so weird.

There’s so much offensive shit in this book too. At first I thought it was emulating the vernacular of the 90s, and it felt unnecessary but not out of place. But there’s some rough intersexphobia and transphobia as well that basically casts two characters as crazy/evil freaks. 

Don’t read this awful book.

INSTEAD, read The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion, and it’s sequel, The Barrow Will Send What it May by Margaret Killjoy. A gang of queer, anarchist punks solve supernatural mysteries. It’s a great time with some very cool characters. The biggest issue is that they’re both novellas, and I so wanted more! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism and Transphobia

epeolatri's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This has very easily become one of my new favorite novels. I loved the author’s writing style and humor. Each character was amazing and fucked up in their own way. Every time I thought I had it figured out something even crazier happened, right up until the last sentence. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexual content and Torture