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your_true_shelf's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Pedophilia, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Suicide
apworden's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
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? It's complicated
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, and Racism
2treads's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
With Creatures of Passage comes a story that explores what can be born and borne of grief, the power it has to both cripple and galvanize us, how the acceptance can lead to a path that is healing and transformative.
Yejidé's writing is heavy, heady, nuanced with feeling and meaning. She seamlessly interweaves the after with the now, connecting life and death via the spirit world, which she writes with such richness that the reader is immersed.
I love books that mesh the spirituality of Black existence into their prose, the meaning and bonds of family, the pain that comes with bottled up emotions and situations not spoken about, and the healing and triumph that begins when we open ourselves to the magic and currents of being.
The dualities of our presence, the ties that physically, emotionally, and spiritually run through communities and homes, the loss of innocence, the hardening of hearts in order to avoid shattering realities course through this story, but with a gentleness that deflects harm.
Yejidé has written characters that burrow into your mind and soul because they all carry hurt and loss within, they all have cares. She has entwined reality with the mystical, making it easy to believe that each is never far from the other and all we have to do is believe.
Yejidé's writing is heavy, heady, nuanced with feeling and meaning. She seamlessly interweaves the after with the now, connecting life and death via the spirit world, which she writes with such richness that the reader is immersed.
I love books that mesh the spirituality of Black existence into their prose, the meaning and bonds of family, the pain that comes with bottled up emotions and situations not spoken about, and the healing and triumph that begins when we open ourselves to the magic and currents of being.
The dualities of our presence, the ties that physically, emotionally, and spiritually run through communities and homes, the loss of innocence, the hardening of hearts in order to avoid shattering realities course through this story, but with a gentleness that deflects harm.
Yejidé has written characters that burrow into your mind and soul because they all carry hurt and loss within, they all have cares. She has entwined reality with the mystical, making it easy to believe that each is never far from the other and all we have to do is believe.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Alcoholism
Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Racism, and Death of parent
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