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Popisho by Leone Ross

23 reviews

popcornreading's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Homophobia, and Miscarriage

mmccombs's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.5

This was like reading a dream! Like one of those dreams that is mostly nice but also vaguely unnerving in a what-is-happening kind of way. I usually do my reviews right after finishing, but I knew this was a book that would benefit from deeper reflection afterwards and I have enjoyed it much more with distance! The fantasy elements were fantastical and strange but also very cozy, it felt like inhabiting a folktale. It was kind of hard to get into, but ultimately I finished feeling fulfilled and joyful having read it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Miscarriage, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Homophobia and Sexual content

daniella_s's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Miscarriage, and Misogyny

Moderate: Suicide

madelynfrank's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

5.0

I got this book from the library because it had a pretty cover. And now it’s one of my top favorites. 
Beautiful prose, interesting and fun setting. Many extremely unique and strong characters and I love them all. It was a joyful escapist magical fantasy that still spoke on food scarcity, complex colonialism, addiction, misogyny. Smart and special and I wish I had more. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Racism, Sexism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism

hayleyholliday's review against another edition

2.5

This book wasn’t for me. Although I really enjoyed the characters, I just couldn’t keep up. There was so much going on and I didn’t understand the magic system at all. I’m giving the book 2.5 stars because if a bit of fantasy is your thing, I’m sure you’ll enjoy this but for me, it was a bit too long and a bit complex. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Miscarriage

lavenderlemonade's review against another edition

medium-paced

• 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? Yes

This book is visceral and luscious in a way I haven’t encountered before. Colourful and baffling. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Rape, Suicide, Excrement, Grief, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

quirme01's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.5

This book felt like a fever dream. At some times it was vivid and exciting and at other times, I had a hard time following and was a bit lost.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual violence, and Suicide

Minor: Vomit and Grief

kayesomething's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexual content, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, and Pregnancy

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Misogyny, and Alcohol

hollyd19's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

Reading Popisho felt like a tripping headfirst into an adult version of The Phantom Tollbooth set to a soundtrack of "For The Benefit of Mr. Kite."

Set in a fictional Caribbean archipelago called Popisho, this delightful and kaleidoscopic book takes place over the course of a day and follows a chorus of magical characters as the impending wedding of the Governor’s daughter approaches. At the center of it all is Xavier Redchoose, the macaenus (a role appointed-by-the-gods to prepare a meal for every Popisho resident over his tenure). 

This was easily one of the most creative books I’ve ever read. Everyone in Popisho is born with “cors,” another word for some sort of magical endowment. But not in a predictable witchcraft/sorcery way. Cors are as varied as people; some people have extremely long limbs, others can detect when you lie, others can change the colors of random objects. Author Leone Ross also committed impressively to world-building. There were so many invented words that I gave up on looking up definitions and just leaned in to the disorientation. And every plot turn felt completely original and entrancingly chaotic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Drug use

Moderate: Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Blood, and Grief

Minor: Child death, Sexism, Suicide, Pregnancy, and Colonisation

literaryjam's review against another edition

This book is very unique in it’s writing, world building and characters. However, there seems to be no plot just a lot of poetic scenarios and I’m not one for poetry. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage and Sexual assault

There was one scene where one of the main characters describe a few of her sexual assault encounters and there a few scenes where another character describes her miscarriages.