A review by bookbrig
Flying by Carrie Jones
adventurous
medium-paced
2.75
A sci-fi thriller with solid friendships, weird alien conspiracy stuff, and an engaging main character. This is fairly light and fluffy, and the plot jumped around a fair amount, but I think it could be a good fit for fans of Dangerous by Shannon Hale, Men in Black, or Stranger Things. It's a bit more silly, but not really in a bad way.
That said, a character tells another character to stop being "so spazzy," and I'm pretty disappointed that got by both the author and presumably an editor. As the word spastic and its shortened forms are often used as slurs, and it's perhaps more predominant in the UK than the US, but it's not unheard of here either. Here's a good blog post that breaks this down with resources. I'd much prefer ANY other word choice, particularly when there's no acknowledgement in the text about how problematic the word is.
That said, a character tells another character to stop being "so spazzy," and I'm pretty disappointed that got by both the author and presumably an editor. As the word spastic and its shortened forms are often used as slurs, and it's perhaps more predominant in the UK than the US, but it's not unheard of here either. Here's a good blog post that breaks this down with resources. I'd much prefer ANY other word choice, particularly when there's no acknowledgement in the text about how problematic the word is.