carleesi's reviews
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I found the guided journaling a really good exercise. The questions were written so that people anywhere on their anti-racism journey could engage and do some self reflection.

As Layla recommended I think I would have got a lot more from this process in a book club or discussion group (alas my book club collapsed and I wanted to put the effort into finishing this book anyway). 

Feels like a powerful tool to come back to in the future or after making a mistake and being able to go to the relevant chapter to reflect and continue to grow.

I think that a lot of the chapters questions were so focused on “a time you did something wrong” I realised I had to structure it for myself to also have more looking forward from those moments, eg how would I ideally have been in that situation now? How do I aim to react moving forward?

Just not for me. I wasn’t drawn to keep reading and I hated the energy of everything going wrong when she was just starting to take chances.

I found it super off putting when Delphine and the narrative just breezes past Em talking about being manipulative as if it was like cute and good… Plus taking Letty’s book??? What????

Really enjoy the perspective and energy of the authors. A bit too much gore/grizzly detail for me though.

Beautiful story. I want to frame all of the illustrations, so gorgeous.

Beautiful artwork

Autistic protagonist ✔️
Amazing world building ✔️
Perfectly balanced romance ✔️
Joyful, silly, fun and well defined characters ✔️

Goddamn I loooooove this book

I watched the videos on YouTube as I went through the book and I highly recommend.