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carlyoc's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
The protagonist Matteo has crippling social anxiety and a sparky but immature inner monologuing that i think would appeal more to middle grade readers than even adults who love YA like myself.
He feels like an outsider in his own community, which is a group living in Brooklyn, New York after being displaced from their magical Atlantic Island San Madrigal when it sunk beneath the waves when Matteo was a baby.
The San Madrigal community is composed of a mix of pirates, Santerios, and Sephardic Jews who all found shelter their fleeing the ills of empire, capitalism, inquisition, and the slave trade.
Now, one of the pirate leaders claims to have found a way to raise the island back from under the sea. But she us hiding dark secrets and has no qualms unleashing monsters and violence on any who stand in the way of her designs.
Matteo and his teenage friends must discover the truth about their own connections to the island to ensure that the truth gets out and island is raised the right way if at all.
Moderate: Grief and Injury/Injury detail
literarycavy'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: Death of parent
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail
eni_iilorak'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
4.5
Graphic: Death, Violence, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Racism, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Colonisation, and Classism
Minor: Sexual content, Slavery, and Mass/school shootings
scarlettskyes'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
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
kayladaila'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
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Colonisation and Classism
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Vomit, and Police brutality