sucreslibrary's reviews
1109 reviews

just really trite. doesn't bring anything new to the table re: hollywood fame story and the Poppy inspiration was so obvious that it felt a bit disingenuous to not even include her name in the way-too-long essay at the end

some of these stories really hit and some are a bit of a slog (the reggaeton artist one was really not for me). faves were 'He Eats His Own' and 'Variations On Your Migrant Life'. several of the 'An Alternate History Of El Salvador or Perhaps the World' were interesting, and the last one (dedicated to two migrants who drowned while attempting to cross the border, one of whom was under 2 years old) was incredibly touching and heartbreaking. a good read and an author I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for in the future! 

points were mainly deducted for the added chapters at the end from the spinoff historical series. I truly hate just about every Jack the Ripper media so him being involved turned me off immediately, as well as the general misogyny present in those chapters. I was really engaged in the current plot so those being tacked on was really annoying! otherwise there were some fun chapters in here, and it's been nice revisiting this series as I catch up with the omnibuses. 

MC babysits a young child in this book and the way the author chose to write about this young boy's body was disturbing in that it was dripping with severe antifatness while also pitying the condition he has (assumedly Prader-Willi (or a made up condition similar to it), something I am aware of thru my own research and not b/c of the book as the book chooses to just vaguely refer to it as "the syndrome" or generally dance around naming it). just really upsetting in a way that was not intended.