This is a hard book to read. It deals very intimately with racism and the different forms it takes, small and big, both in the present day and in 1863. The contrast between the two times was well done, showing how much things had changed or not changed, in some cases. The first 80 or so pages are ...
This is a great collection of stories. Stories that are raw, dealing with bullying every, single day. And stories where people have had enough and are finally standing up for themselves.Let me begin by saying that I had a love/hate thing with this book. One minutes I'd be angry or sad due to an bull...
I didn't think this book was developed enough. If I didn't know what it was about - based on the jacket copy and the author intro - I don't think I would have really gotten it from reading the book. I had so many questions at the end about parts of the book, parts of the world that Elliot started to...
Review to come. Compared to other bully story compiliations I've read, this one really paled in comparison. I did not like the fact that some of the stories lacked resolution or were truncated on awkward notes in that it seemed to go against the very message it was trying to put across. However, t...
a retelling of Kindred, which I love
This story has an interesting premise. Okay. I have to admit time travel of any sort is an interesting premise in my world. Like Octavia Butler's Kindred, this novel has its protagonists of distant African heritage traveling back in time to Civil-War-period New York. However, I was very put off by t...
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