Reviews and Comments

What a ride! Black music/history, appropriation and white guilt, a dash of dark magic realism, all told in a fascinating story structure. All thumbs up.

tbh at first I almost stopped reading bc of the main character's casual misogyny. It is very male gaze-ish, but this book excels in giving you characters that make you feel overall uncomfy and still it sucks you in and you can't stop reading.

And it has such a good depiction of the toxicity of rare record collectors scenes and their weird gatekeeping and power structures. Bringing back memories, damn.

Well-told modern folk tale. A children's story about dealing with death and a good read for adults too. I like how Ness uses the Green Man as mentor and monster. A relationship with a yew tree used by a boy's imagination to get in touch with himself.

This was a fun read. I enjoyed the ideas Natasha Pulley has put into worldbuilding: How would people change when living on Mars, as society and physically? How would languages and tech evolve? The actual story is a wee bit too YA soap lit for my taste but it was a fun read!

I like the climate, social and economical warning of a dystopian world Michelle Min Sterling wrote. I like the three story lines, the way the story is build. I love how it is all about community, about people working together to change something instead of the standard hero*ine narrative.

I agree with other reviewers that the end is a bit of a mess, and characters are not very fleshed out, but I still think it is special and worth a read for the world the author builds. It is a debut novel and I for one am curious what Michelle Min Sterling will write next!

Wenn ihr es nicht eh schon gelesen habt: Holt das unbedingt nach! Schmerzhaft realistische Einschätzungen, aber vor allem ein Mut machender und inspirierender Ratgeber mit Ideen für konkrete Handlungsmöglichkeiten auf ganz viel verschiedenen Ebenen gegen die Rechten. Großartig.

Pilzwurzelrevolution. Wow. Ein Buch, an dem ich mich als Allergikerin gegen Dorfromantik- und "zurück zur Natur"-Träume, selbst wenn sie kollektivistisch und marxistisch sind, sehr gerieben habe, aber das mag ich an dem Buch: es hat mich an vielen Stellen herausgefordert, mich zu fragen, warum bei mir so eine Widerwehr gegen was genau aufkommt und wo sie berechtigt ist und wo eigentlich nicht.

Basically fan fic and, like others said, more Harry Potter copycat than Sherlock Holmes but a silly little fun read nonetheless.