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My thoughts

5/5stars This book has everything I want in a perfect read: there is 1. fantasy elements 2. Magic/Magical world 3. a well built world around that magic 4. Body Horror and most importantly 5. An underlying message, something real deeper than the fictional fable. “Girl, every choice we make is a new tomorrow. Whole worlds waiting to be born. For those of you who don't know what this book is about, it's a short story(novella) revolving around the black people in the hands of the "Ku Klux" clan. this story incorporates the true sufferings of the black people turns it into a fantasy where now they have magic and power to fight these "evils" and our MC talks about the hatred fear and vengeance developing in them. Reason and law don’t mean much when white folk want their way. This book has been compared to Lovecraftian horror and rightly so, but I just wanna add on a point to it, altho I appreciate his writing let's not forget he was a cis white man and we accepted his stories so easily, so def black people are allowed to write fantasy stories based on their history. They say God is good all the time. Seem he also likes irony. Special mention for the audiobook, the narrator has done a pretty good job with it, certain "horror" elements are brought out so very perfectly, def gonna send chills down your spine. Highly recommend that. CWs for the book: white supremacy, blood, murder, violence, racism and violence targeted towards African Americans, discussion of racism other marginalized groups such as Indigenous people experienced, slurs, generational trauma. Gore, Body Horror, Mutilation, Lynching