Extremely tough read on multiple fronts but in my opinion should be required reading for all those who have experienced trauma and had those experiences taken and twisted by others for their own gains.
Very informative for understanding the current (at time of this review) Jones trial in Texas. It's a terrible read (nothing about Sandy Hook could be otherwise) but very well put together and very worth reading to understand much of what's happened to American culture in the past two decades.
Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Grief, Death of parent, Hate crime, Murder, War, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Confinement, Death, Racism, Police brutality, and Religious bigotry
Excellent, amazing book. Worth a reread, even, on the history of Pope Pius VII's epic struggles with Napoleon the first through the post 1801-revolutions and conflicts throughout continental Europe.
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
0.5
This Uber Xena story has all of my favourite fanfiction tropes (fake marriage, strangers to friends to lovers) and a very interesting cross-dressing genderqueer lesbian narrative that made me smile a lot. The book's treatment of Indigenous people and sex workers is... honestly completely unacceptable by today's standards, though I suppose the racism and whorephobia in general could be characterised as era-appropriate. From a historical fiction perspective, I'm not enough of a historian to give a proper opinion on that, but I have to say that while the setting "felt" correct, a lot of the dialogue by the middle and latter half of the book between the two main characters felt jarringly modern. Anyways, that's my two cents, and in my opinion racist portrayals of Native American nations is not something a reader should have to surmount to enjoy a book.