drews

Another good break from the broken earth trilogy.

I especially liked nassun's story line and really enjoyed the parallels that NK Jemisin draws between orogenes and the gender sexual and romantic minority community and their struggle for aacceptance.

Great read all around and highly recommend it.

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Warning Mature subject matter. This is not a book or review for those that may be triggered by subject matter concerning sexual abuse and rape

Opening prologue really helps set the tone for the whole book. We are introduced to Deliaha, a mentally unstable woman who suffers from severe depression, self doubt,extremely low self esteen, anxiety and possibly a schizophrenic who seems to suffer from hallucinations of pink eared bunnies, glass turtle ashtray and green doors stemming From trauma from her choldhood.

She constantly tells herself she is the unwanted, unloved, the rejected and because of this she puts up walls and pushes people away and when people reach out to her and face this rejection and respond by leaving her she views this as proof that re-enforces this feeling

The story is about Deliaha trying to cope with the loss of a mother who seems to not remember her in any meaningful way and relationships issues with her husband. These problems seems to stem from a lack of any kind of sex life. Her turns to porn to try to get this need met for himself

In Chapter 9 we have a vivid scene that can only be describbed as rape. She blames herself for what happened and has a religious guilt feelings the God cannot forgive her. Also a lot of resentment for her rapist who seem to be able to continue with his life without guilt which only seems to re-enforce her idea it was her fault.

All comes to a head at the end. First she comits the savage crime of murder while the story was she is a victim, then she really is a victm and kills in self defense.

A well written intensely depressing book that really did a great job creating a character that I can empathize with. Especally as I have also suffered from debilitating depression in my own life, as well as issues of religious guilt.

I am not much of a comic book reader so take my review with a grain of salt.

Overall I enjoyed this first issue and found it to be a good set up for a larger story arc.

I did find it to have a superman vibe to it with a coming of age type story arc .

The artwork is good imho but then as I don't read comics typically I don't know how it compares to others overall.

I loved this little novella. It is honestly hilarious. I see it as a cross between Dirk gently holistic detective agency and dr who

From interdimensional space dogs, to 7 foot tall summarais and illegal sex toy factories this book is laughs all the way through

I read this book to hopefully get a better understanding of residential schools and the impact it had and still is on the first nations community and it did not dissapoint.

Before you read this book be aware this book contains a lot of triggering content. Sexual abuse, racism, violence, bigotry, rape etc...

This book had me crying 10 pages in. I have always had empathy for the horror, abuse, genocide, and suffering the 1st nations community had to endure and this books really hit me hard.

This is a heart wrenching story of Saul Indian Horse who survived the residential school system, barley.

While a fictional account it is, from my understanding based on true accounts of the authors family and expierences.

The writing style feels so authenticate, visceral and real I could not put this story down. I Read it in one sitting. Its impossible not to feel for Saul and what he had to endure and highly reccommended.

Excellent book