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A review by uhhjeepers
Brutes by Dizz Tate
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I’m finding it difficult to rate this book.
It was such a unique reading experience for me. I’ve never really read something this ambiguous or collective. I’ve left feeling like I hardly know these characters, hardly know what happened, but that doesn’t really feel bad the way you’d think.
Part of me feels like that’s intentional. The repetition of “we” throughout the book implies they hardly know themselves without each other. They only know the whole. As adults they still don’t really know. They all seem stuck and confused and generally unhappy in one way or another.
I think I feel fondly about it because that’s the type of girlhood I feel I’m always experiencing. Being brutish and hardly girly to the point where girl becomes subjective and questionable. Feeling sad and confused and lost yet still at wonder with the world.
This book isn’t at all what you’ll expect going into it, but if you need it, you’ll know.
It was such a unique reading experience for me. I’ve never really read something this ambiguous or collective. I’ve left feeling like I hardly know these characters, hardly know what happened, but that doesn’t really feel bad the way you’d think.
Part of me feels like that’s intentional. The repetition of “we” throughout the book implies they hardly know themselves without each other. They only know the whole. As adults they still don’t really know. They all seem stuck and confused and generally unhappy in one way or another.
I think I feel fondly about it because that’s the type of girlhood I feel I’m always experiencing. Being brutish and hardly girly to the point where girl becomes subjective and questionable. Feeling sad and confused and lost yet still at wonder with the world.
This book isn’t at all what you’ll expect going into it, but if you need it, you’ll know.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual assault and Fire/Fire injury