The great style of writing doesn't save the fact that this book focuses its forward movement solely on trauma theater. Content warning for very graphic sexual assault and child abuse scenes. I had to put it down multiple times for my own mental health and barely made it through the end. Not quite redemptive at the end either, at least not in a way that felt satisfying.
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Fatu rated Work Won't Love You Back: 4 stars
Fatu finished reading Work Won't Love You Back by Sarah Jaffe
Fatu wants to read Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education by Eric Fure-Slocum
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Fatu rated The Narrow Road Between Desires: 4 stars
Patrick Rothfuss: The Narrow Road Between Desires (DAW)
The Narrow Road Between Desires by Patrick Rothfuss
An upcoming novella set in Temerant centred around Bast. Illustrated by Nate Taylor.
Fatu rated Immortal Longings: 5 stars
Chloe Gong: Immortal Longings (2023, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers)
Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong (Flesh and False Gods, #1)
Inspired by Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, Immortal Longings is a fiery collision of power plays, spilled blood, and romance …
Fatu rated Guards! Guards!: 4 stars
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett (Discworld (8))
Fatu reviewed Perish by Latoya Watkins
Trauma theater
2 stars
Fatu rated The Colour of Magic: 4 stars
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #1)
Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have garnered him a revered position …
Fatu reviewed Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett (Discworld (3))
Equal Rites is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett. Published in 1987, it is …
Fantastic Writing
4 stars
Pratchett has a great sense of wit and humor and it comes through in this piece. Great for a first foray into the DiscWorld. I appreciated the ending on this one more than I did on the other two I've read, and both my partner and I had plenty of laugh-out-loud moments while reading
Fatu reviewed Mort by Terry Pratchett
Death takes on an apprentice who's an individual thinker.
Great Writing, Cop-Out Ending
4 stars
I appreciate Pratchett's commitment to the absurd, though I thought the Deus Ex ending was a bit heavy-handed and could've used more nuance and gravitas. Still, it's worth the read, even if you haven't delved too much into the Discworld series
Mort by Terry Pratchett
Death takes on an apprentice who's an individual thinker.