which is a right missed opportunity for an author who could be spending their time educating the youth on how actual successful activism and historical activist/justice movements have operated and succeeded
but it doesn’t feel like they’ve done that homework
please just give me a book which is not entirely about some youthful protagonist achieving her own, highly‐specific, individual dreams slash power fantasies
please just give me a book about someone who understands collective responsibility and has a historical perspective regarding activism and change
in the end it feels extremely self‐aggrandizing regarding the power of words to enact change, which is a pervasive problem among writers in general and not in any way historically or scientifically founded
it’s excusable in a sense in that it is entirely in‐character and understandable for the protagonist to feel these ways and have these misunderstandings, but i really don’t want to have to listen to them for 52 bloody chapters lol