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- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
I am being dramatic; I love me a story from the villain's perspective (although it is weird to call a kid a villain, even if it's true). In fact I couldn't go 5 pages without leaving a note about something that made me laugh or made me angry or a comment about something happening in the world. Usually if something is so bad it's good I'll comment that but this book and series are just good. Like okay good not excellent or superb. Like a pleasant okay good.
I had similar issues for this book as I did the first one (the world building isn't fleshed out (although I do understand it more the second time round now), the back half of the book hooked me a lot more than the first half then it was over so quick). I think it's a good message for the youths to be aware of though, and my teenage self would've ate this up.
Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, Xenophobia, Grief, and Stalking
Moderate: Bullying and Classism
4.25
Graphic: Racism, Torture, Police brutality, Grief, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Moderate: Addiction, Biphobia, Confinement, Drug use, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Abandonment
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Fatphobia, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic
4.75
Historical nonfiction, in my experience, is very repetitive, but here it works. It also works that the books begins (in either the foreword or the preface, idk, 68 pages before we get to the meat of the text is crazy) with whichever writer mentioning that critics of the book have complained that the book doesn't give a good enough blueprint on what revolutionary actions they should take nexts. You fools. You spineless clowns. Fanon literally says over and over here's how the colonizer distracts you and the way forward is not gonna be the same for everyone. The repetition is to show that while every story and its circumstances are different, the root of all their problems come from the same source.
It's depressing that this book published when my grandmother was born (and has since passed) is still relevant to today. I hope it is not relevant by the end of my life time. I hope that people look back at this book as a cautionary tale, a reminder of our history we cannot forget and always, constantly relearn to remember what not to do and how to move forward.
Also kinda fucked up his parents named him Frantz. Sounds like France. Is / Was that a common name?
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, and Deportation
Minor: Vomit and Abandonment
2.5
Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and War
Minor: Child death, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, and Rape
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
I do feel that if I had read this book first and Evil Eye second, I still would've given Evil Eye 5 stars. These books were written for the culture. Not my culture, but the importance of them, the weight of them, were not just to represent Palestinians and Arabs, but to show other Arabs "this is who we are, we have stories to tell, and we have to be honest with ourselves" and I love that SO much. Etaf Rum you will always be famous!!!
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Confinement, Genocide, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, and Deportation
Minor: Body horror, Drug use, Fatphobia, Miscarriage, Islamophobia, Stalking, and Car accident
1.75
I found this (and another) zine in Hayward, CA, and it must have lived quite the life to travel from one coast to the other. I thought that was worth saying.
Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Misogyny, Police brutality, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Rape, Abandonment, and War
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Misogyny, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Abandonment
Moderate: Body horror, Death, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Colonisation
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
2.25
That being said, with a lot of my own poems they aren't very good they're just something I had to get out of my mind. Raw thoughts, raw emotions and feelings. Sometimes nonsensical. When I go back and read them I go ew that's never seeing the light of anyone else's eyes but mine and even I don't wanna look at it. You're going deep into my google drive folders.
Not that Vianney's poems here are necessarily like that, but they are just raw emotion. It's very real, deeply personal, very much something she had to get out there or else she would go crazy. As she said Friducha was a character she made when she thought she wouldn't survive. The poems are not for me, I don't think they have rereadability, but I feel like I know her, or at least the person I knew in 2016-2019, more now. Whoever she is now and the state and contents of her poetry, I hope she's alright!
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, and Abortion
Moderate: Confinement, Racism, Rape, Vomit, and Abandonment
Minor: Drug abuse, Homophobia, and Colonisation
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.25
Graphic: Child abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Police brutality, and Murder
Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Self harm, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Ableism and Terminal illness