A review by bethreads13
The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez

2.0

i had such high hopes for this book and it fell waayyyy short. the mc felt unbearably boring to me, she seemed to have no personality or desires of her own, and was even stripped of her own name. gilda had so much potential in the beginning but then spent hundreds of years being insufferable. i still am very confused and disturbed by the relationship between gilda and bird, bird is described to be a mother figure to gilda but their relationship feels borderline incestuous and predatory. i appreciate the themes of found family and what the author was trying to do, but in my opinion the author was unsuccessful. but maybe i just didn’t get it