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Entry tags:
- a: dia reeves,
- american south,
- asian pacific islanders,
- biracial,
- family,
- fantasy,
- filipino-american,
- food/cooking,
- genre:sf.fantasy,
- intergenerational,
- interracial relationships,
- latin@,
- mental illness,
- mixed race,
- multiracial,
- novel,
- orig.lang:english,
- relationships,
- setting:united.states,
- sf/fantasy,
- sff,
- supernatural,
- urban fantasy,
- women writers,
- young adult
Dia Reeves' Bleeding Violet
This came into my possession via the latest Humble Ebook Bundle, and I am so glad it did. This is how glad I am: I am about two-thirds of the way through it and I can't wait to finish before I tell you all how good it is.
The protagonist, Hanna, is sixteen, manic depressive (and explicitly, canonically prefers that descriptor to "bipolar", Because Reasons), and Finnish-"island girl" (Hawaiian?), raised (for most of her life) in Dallas. She describes herself as biracial and bicultural, and she's bilingual in English and Finnish - and the codeswitching is genuinely plausibly represented.
The dude she ends up hanging around with a lot is the same age, Latino, and bilingual in Spanish and English - again, really nicely represented.
The story takes place in creepy smalltown Texas. It's sub/urban fantasy and abusive parents and a critique of the medical-industrial complex and teenagers having (complicated, not always happy) sex lives all tied up in tight, funny monster-killing brilliance. It's lovely.
Content notes: there's a pretty graphic suicide attempt and some self-harm and drug use. There's a lot of abusive/unreliable parenting. If you'd like me to give more details (or flag up anything else) please do ask.
The protagonist, Hanna, is sixteen, manic depressive (and explicitly, canonically prefers that descriptor to "bipolar", Because Reasons), and Finnish-"island girl" (Hawaiian?), raised (for most of her life) in Dallas. She describes herself as biracial and bicultural, and she's bilingual in English and Finnish - and the codeswitching is genuinely plausibly represented.
The dude she ends up hanging around with a lot is the same age, Latino, and bilingual in Spanish and English - again, really nicely represented.
The story takes place in creepy smalltown Texas. It's sub/urban fantasy and abusive parents and a critique of the medical-industrial complex and teenagers having (complicated, not always happy) sex lives all tied up in tight, funny monster-killing brilliance. It's lovely.
Content notes: there's a pretty graphic suicide attempt and some self-harm and drug use. There's a lot of abusive/unreliable parenting. If you'd like me to give more details (or flag up anything else) please do ask.