This SF book aimed at young adults is a quick and absorbing read, but not an easy one - contains harm to children. If you can tolerate reading about tThis SF book aimed at young adults is a quick and absorbing read, but not an easy one - contains harm to children. If you can tolerate reading about that, I'd highly recommend it: its characters and imaginative world have a lot of texture and depth for such a slim book....more
I didn't love this quite as much as the comics (it's a novella set a couple of years after Heartstopper), but I did like it very much. I didn't love this quite as much as the comics (it's a novella set a couple of years after Heartstopper), but I did like it very much. ...more
I really, really enjoyed this adventure/romance of Mary Reade, one of the known, historical, female pirates... although one of the things I love aboutI really, really enjoyed this adventure/romance of Mary Reade, one of the known, historical, female pirates... although one of the things I love about the novel is how it explores what we can't know about the historical Mary's own gender, when she's known as both Mary and Mark. The other main strand of the book is a reflection on close relationships - friendship, romance, (the blurry places between these), chosen family vs family of origin. The whole is well-seasoned with (sometimes quite bloody) piracy and hard life in London, the Caribbean Islands and on the high seas.
Content warnings for homophobia, transphobia, violence in many forms....more
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