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A review by sappho
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
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>trans twitter users surviving 2018’s zombie apocalypse inherently comic for such a gross novel. will this book age strangely? love and light.
>everyone has such a perfect name for their characters. Beth. Fran. Robbie. Sophie. Indi. Ramona. It’s perfect it’s not too much and it’s not too little.
>very gross very nasty will be haunting me not just for fried testicles but for questions about community and violence and how to not be a coward.
>strengthened a lot of my core beliefs, this is going to be a book i think about for a long time. also "what if the manhunt apocalypse happens tomorrow" will be a recurring stress fantasy for me i can tell.
by the time i got to the fran/ramona sex scene i started feeling like "this is an unrealistic amount of sex scenes to include in a book do we really have to do this again" but the more i thought about it, the more i realized how necessary each sex scene was to the characters and to the plot of the book. that one especially for totally hammering home exactly why beth is right to not trust ramona even after she got a bullet through her brain for the girls.
ALSO WHEN FRAN DIED AND IT TURNED OUT TEACH AND BETH WERE SISTERS I LOST MY FUCKING MIND maybe im reading into that conversation about them being sisters but how else would she know her deadname.
>trans twitter users surviving 2018’s zombie apocalypse inherently comic for such a gross novel. will this book age strangely? love and light.
>everyone has such a perfect name for their characters. Beth. Fran. Robbie. Sophie. Indi. Ramona. It’s perfect it’s not too much and it’s not too little.
>very gross very nasty will be haunting me not just for fried testicles but for questions about community and violence and how to not be a coward.
>strengthened a lot of my core beliefs, this is going to be a book i think about for a long time. also "what if the manhunt apocalypse happens tomorrow" will be a recurring stress fantasy for me i can tell.
by the time i got to the fran/ramona sex scene i started feeling like "this is an unrealistic amount of sex scenes to include in a book do we really have to do this again" but the more i thought about it, the more i realized how necessary each sex scene was to the characters and to the plot of the book. that one especially for totally hammering home exactly why beth is right to not trust ramona even after she got a bullet through her brain for the girls.
ALSO WHEN FRAN DIED AND IT TURNED OUT TEACH AND BETH WERE SISTERS I LOST MY FUCKING MIND maybe im reading into that conversation about them being sisters but how else would she know her deadname.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape, Transphobia, Violence, Trafficking, and War
Moderate: Fatphobia, Vomit, and Pregnancy