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I loved every minute of it

Revisado: 10-25-22

I loved it. I listened to it with headphones on and I jumped a few times. The sound effects were awesome. I hope this will be made for TV. I want more.

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It was gross

Revisado: 01-25-21

Davey picked the wrong place to go to for a good time. Why didn't they take garlic with them when they went back to Live Girls? I liked it. This book was pretty gross.

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Can't wait for the show

Revisado: 01-25-21

I read this with my husband at the same time, right after we watched Bly Manor on Netflix. It is an interesting tale with some imagery from English Gothic traditions but in a different setting. I liked Noemi a lot. She was the knight going to rescue “the princess” and also the object of the monster’s attention needing to rescue herself. I felt bad for Francis. I hated his mother. I liked the old woman in the village that got paid in cigarettes. This has an IMDB page and I hope it makes it to a limited TV series. It might be kind of gross to see at parts but worth it.

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Pretty Good

Revisado: 01-25-21

I loved the cover art. This was a long story, and a good one. There were a lot of characters to keep up with - maybe too many. I can’t tell you what any of them might look like. I enjoyed this book ok but I don't know if I will read the rest of the series. I really wanted to like it more.

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Loved it

Revisado: 01-25-21

I was very entertained. Dear Sister, reminded me of my Grandmother dreaming about fishes. My Grandmother always came to our house asking which one of us is pregnant and I'd say to her, you know which house you need to be at. But because my cousin was much younger than us she never wanted to believe it. She dreamed of fishes a lot. I didn't care for Tasheda. Married men are a big no, no.
Peach Cobbler, why couldn't her daughter have any of the cobbler? And why was her mother so cold to her. And why do side chicks tend to hate the wife?
Jael, is my favorite. She had me laughing out loud talking trash about the pedophile. "His arms were soft and pale, no muscles in sight, soft ass n!**@." So, did she know that her grandma was reading her diary?
This was a really good way to start the New Year.

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It's a no for me

Revisado: 01-07-21

This book had some charm to it, much like other books I have read by this author. Owen’s mother is a trip. She had me laughing talking about Owen’s father. There was a scene with Patty talking about naps, and I thought I was the only one that hated naps because of how they make me feel.

I have to say, though, that this book lost me kind of early on because of one specific scene. There is a scene between a black woman and a white woman and the ww asks the bw about "using the n word when you're not black". The bw replies, "Black folks kind of hate it when people say 'n word'. Either say n___ when talking about racist terms or skip the subject. N word is a slippery way of saying n___ while trying to be PC." (I am not spelling it out, but the author did.) I do not and don't know a single black person who does. I heard this as a white author's voice coming through one of his black characters in an inauthentic way. I am not sure how to interpret this. Is this maybe his own ignorance of how we actually feel? Does he maybe know some black folks who do feel this way? Or (and this is what I felt was happening) is he expressing his own thoughts through a black character he is writing?
Later in the book the author used the word again, this time in the mouth of a different character that was telling how his father used it about certain music. So the scene was a white character using it in the way the author had previously excused because they were reporting on its usage as a pejorative but not using it themselves as a pejorative. I am convinced that the author is reflecting a personal defense of having used the word in the past, maybe in another book or maybe in his personal life. That is not acceptable. In art, context matters. I would not advocate censorship. There may be instances of white authors using the word in ways that make sense in their art. But the line is VERY thin, because we know that behind the words of fictional characters, when the author is white we have to wonder what problematic perspectives might be seeping through.

Too bad I couldn’t rate this book higher, and too bad I am done with this author.

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It was sad

Revisado: 10-30-20

I thought I was getting a scary book. This was about child molesters. So, I guess it is scary but not what I expected. I gave the story two stars because I don't like stories about children being hurt.

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DNF

Revisado: 08-14-20

This book doesn't make any sense to me and I'm bored. I don't even know what this book is about. DNF

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Funny

Revisado: 08-21-18

These stories are so dramatical and that makes them funny to me. There's a lesson in every story.

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Good book

Revisado: 05-28-18

I liked this book. My husband loved it. I was hesitant to start another inner-city book because I had just finished The Hate You Give. I like to alternate genres.
I liked the details the author gave, like his description of the dresser and how Will's mind would wonder with memories of his brother, and the description of everyone that got on that elevator.
The author treats the subject very matter-of-factly. It is up to the reader to draw conclusions, but they are obvious conclusions that are easy to come to from the luxury of being the reader. Folks are trapped in cycles and follow rules of their own making to stay in those cycles even when it is obvious that they lead to destruction. The reader knows what is going to happen, but so does Will. I don't mean to say that this is predictable, because it is not. But with every new person on the elevator we find that the characters are trapped in and even to a degree accept that things are the way they are. The elevator goes in one direction.

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