User Profile

Let's be honest: I started this without knowing anything about it. It took me about ten chapters to realize it was a sequel. I had not read any of the prevous books but decided to finish this one anyway. I found it tedious at times. It annoyed me, especially be being excrutiatingly long. It wasn't until the last act that I realized what it was going for and even then I couldn't believe it but while slowly grasping the complexity of it all I had to admit that this book contains one of the most brilliant deconstructions of colonialist mindsets from a White perspective I have ever encountered. I have seen far better writers go for this and fail, but Rachel Hartman succeeds with flying colours. Joke's on me. This book is actually amazing.

This is me trying to keep up with Young Adult hypes, even if I'm a decade to late...

I am in absolute awe of this book. Three time periods, three variations of the same sad melody conveying love and sickness, queerness, family, roots, history, death, and, above all, hope.