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tangleroot_eli's review
adventurous
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Knocked me for all the loops in the best possible ways.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Classism
Minor: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Blood, and Alcohol
readingwithcoffee's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
fast-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? It's complicated
4.5
Written by a hoodoo practitioner with notes at the end thanking her Navajo friend helping edit/being consulted for the Navajo character, the poetic novella follows Moth, a teenage African American girl, and Sani a Navajo teenage boy as they try to deal through their interpersonal traumas and tragedies as well as generational traumas and tragedies they inherit and live with from the harm the United States has done to both their peoples respectively. The teenagers find comfort in each other and their respective traditions (moth’s grandfather being a hoodoo man and sani’s father being medicine man) similarities and differences as they travel the south of both the Great Migration of African American to the Navajo Nation in their last summer to find some reconciliation with and for each other.
More sad then scary but it is a haunting story, I loved reading it.
More sad then scary but it is a haunting story, I loved reading it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Drug use, Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, and Colonisation