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pickWow, what an incredibly affecting, original piece of fiction. Through her narrator Jess, Black explores the effect of trauma on an individual's life, and the role of suicide in society. But also relationships, family, love, grief, and joy. It is a dark book, but balanced enough to avoid total despair. Black does an incredible job of balancing a book that looks so deeply at trauma without falling into “trauma-porn.“
TW: suicide, abuse
pickLiv experiences high school while being separated long-term from her twin brother for the first time. Despite her struggles, she finds a delightful friend group and finds herself in an unexpected love triangle. This was pretty darn adorable! I loved that Liv didn‘t have everything about her identity figured out by the end, leaving room for future growth beyond the story‘s end. #LGBTQIA #Comics
"Perhaps this is how good parenting always happens; you middle through in desperate terror and then attempt to apply logic afterwards to justify your choices."
Sounds accurate to me!
pick26 Nov-14 Dec 24 (audiobook)
Dryly humourous, this is the story of Lionel Baker. Lionel lives a quiet, rule-abiding existence working for the Department of Magical Youth inspecting orphanages which home children with magical abilities until he is asked to inspect an orphanage housing six extraordinary children, including Luci, the actual antichrist.
Heartwarming and funny, Trixie and I enjoyed this audiobook.
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My January #BookSpin list. Excited to begin another year of reading fun! Thanks for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks !
