locdbooktician's reviews
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I loved this book. I loved how real this book was about putting in your face how in many ways the world is and is not ready to fully accept queer folks. I think that using horror as the medium to tell this story was a choice I can get behind. The man with the damn cigarette really messed me up BTW. The struggle of being in the closet and being in the open was very real in the book. This book was everything to me. The only thing that does not make this 5 stars is because I think I was confused on the plot sometimes in the book. 

This 4th book in the series is a continued search for Moriarty. Certain characters true identities were revealed in this book. I still have mixed thoughts on lady Ingram.  But overall I am still enjoying this book. The pace was a bit too slow for me but I’m still committed to this book series 

Great introduction into the book and Temperance. The pace was slow and this book felt more character driven than plot because we need to know more about that characters for the series to be set up right. I am definitely continuing the series. 

I feel like reading the books. I realized that Temperance " Bones " Brennan is in more danger than she could have died in the TV show. I feel like they’re happening more often and are more aggressive in the book. I also love how the character development continues to happen between and Ryan.

TW: death of a child 

This book… I met a loss of words of how I I am to describe what I just read. The twist and turns you suddenly see until they’re in your face. This is a story about how a disease that plagued a child and how the disease altered the adults in that child life actions.

The only thing that I didn't like was the pace in the first 20% of the book, but the payout was worth it! This is the story of a young girl who is trying to figure out who she is after something terrible happens to her father. She enlists her auntie Squeaker and best friend Debbie to help her figure out what happened to her mother, who disappeared when she was 2 weeks old. She is left with trying to figure out what happened to her mother and talk to people who her mother knew without the help of her father. 

She runs into so many brick walls until she uncovers that the secret to her mother's disappearance may be related to something that has been plaguing Indigenous women since 1492. Not only is the MC able to learn about her own heritage, but she also learns that insidious people are not just strangers on the internet; they could be someone close to you! 

The women on this island are probably some of the most resilient and strong people I have ever met via fiction. However, even though this book is fictional, it has real life implications is an issue that has been happening I remember one time I saw this TikTok of this woman who said that women are the only species in the world that make with their predators. There’s just something that I can't ever forget about that.

A lot of times when I’m reading books about grief, I have to remind myself to hear the message and not disregard the messenger. What I mean by that is that in this book there was several times that the author gave suggestions of how to deal with different parts of grief: one of those instances was to look at a time where you felt free looking at pictures when you were a toddler. Unfortunately, I am a who lost everything that I lost everything that I owned, including pictures of me prior to the age of 15. 

So while reading that part of the book I had to just say to myself look at pictures when you felt joyous to get through the text. I like how the author talked about complicated grief, specifically complicated grief when it has to deal with a parent I wrote down so many things that I want to constantly remind myself about my grief, and I love how the author said that your grief will take the time it needs to take Often times I feel like I need to quickly get over the death of my mother. This book reminded me that I don’t do that.

This book is so good. I love how books from an authors experience and spreads awareness of how real estate is predatory in America when it comes to land and property owned by Blacl and Brown people in this country. 

This book had so many dichotomies that it’s forced the reader to think about race, position, and family in ways that we often don’t get a chance to explore.