Positive Smart Bitches Trashy Books This hemming and hawing about the humans’ arrival takes about a good first quarter of the book. A propulsive fantasy thriller about fortune-seeking at the end of the world that will leave you wanting more.
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Only the slow unspooling of Nina’s backstory and the reason why she left the Saturn Club in the first place pose stumbling blocks to the reader it’s hard to feel the desired shock of changing loyalties or the longing for healed relationships when the reader doesn’t have the full picture of one character’s ties to another. The novel’s pacing is electric, its worldbuilding seamless, and the magic that slowly reveals itself feels truly strange and captivating-a considerable feat. entranced by mutual aid organizations–turned–secret societies and caught in a slow-burn environmental catastrophe that’s unsettlingly plausible, and her depiction of the aftermath of sexual assault is complicated in its rage and compassion. Feldman conjures a near-future version of the U.S. That this one-night mission comes with untold wonders and terrors is a surprise for Nina and a thrill for readers.
An impassioned celebration of Black women and their roles in transforming the nation. Overall, though, the author offers compelling commentary on the significance of Black women in contemporary America. A little more nuance might have been helpful in the author’s assessments of the status of a leader such as Kamala Harris, whose reputation among Black voters seems more complicated than Ryan implies. Also cogent are her accounts of recent efforts at voter suppression and the resistance being organized by formidably committed activists. She argues convincingly that her career has been dedicated to posing questions too often slighted or silenced. Ryan is particularly effective in evocatively setting forth the terms of her calling as a journalist. Among the most memorable sections of the book are her response to the White supremacist terrorist attack in Charlottesville and her own often caustic exchanges with Trump and his representatives during press conferences. Positive Kirkus Though she moves fluidly across eras, Ryan focuses primarily on her role as a top White House correspondent during the Trump era and her reporting of-and sometimes personal involvement in-a range of stories prompted by his incendiary reign. An uneven but rigorously reported, urgent book.
Anyone with grand illusions about the American justice system will have lost them by the end.
Overall, though, Dawidoff presents a compelling examination of a situation in which police officers eager to put another case in the \'solved\' column ignored obvious evidence and coerced a teenager into a confession of a crime he didn\'t commit. Certain chapters are not thoroughly integrated into the narrative structure. Readers anxious to get on with the story may get bogged down in the long account, drawing on Fields\' sister\'s memoir, of his childhood in South Carolina. The author’s research and dedication to the project are clear, but the book would have benefitted from a stronger editorial hand. Positive Kirkus The text-compassionate, thoughtful, and thorough to a fault-is caught somewhat uncomfortably between a sociological study of the causes and results of racial division and a more straightforward narrative of Bobby\'s conviction, imprisonment, and bumpy reentry into society.
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