Rated YA-MA discussion

First Impressions- Roll Call
This is a spoiler-free thread!

Roll Call: Will you be joining in the group read?
What format: hardcover, paperback, Wattpad, ebook, PDF, audio, other?
How excited (or not) are you to read this book?
Have you read it already? If so, will you reread it?

First Impressions: Share your initial impressions of this book without any book spoilers.

Share your full thoughts with spoilers here:
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I plan to listen to this book, but I’m in line for it at the library, so who knows when I’ll get to it.

I am intrigued by the concept and genre, but I don’t know that it’s anything I would have picked up on my own

I'm super excited to read this book. It's been on my TBR list for a while, and I got the audiobook on sale a while back. I love university settings and interstellar politics are my jam, so this is very much in my wheelhouse.

Like Ashley, I am also in line to get this as an audiobook from my library. I think there are three other people ahead of me, so who knows when that will be.

Also, what is Afropunk?

I put the wrong label. It should have been Afro-futurism, but Afropunk is a thing too.

Afro-futurism: "Afrofuturism, a term coined in the 1990s by Mark Dery in his article “Black to the Future,” describes music, literature, and art that contains elements of science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, historical fiction, Afrocentricity, and non-Western cosmologies. The genre primarily critiques past and present dilemmas faced by people of color, while also imagining futures for those groups that stem from the experiences of cultures formed as a result of the historical African diaspora. " https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/s....

Afropunk: "https://www.ajc.com/entertainment/mus...

I am starting my reread today. I know I plowed through the whole trilogy when I first read it and the later book has a bit of mystery in it, so I will be alert for early planted clues. And also to see how well I remember it.

i'm about halfway through right now and i'm enjoying it - i can see myself buying the other two books in the future

I just got it from the library, so I am late to the table, but better now than never! Plan to read it all this weekend - paperback version.

Decently excited to read this! Haven't read too much about it, as it wasn't on my radar before the group read.

Again, I *will* read this, but I may get to it late.

It's a novella so it will be a quick read too.

moved to sci-fi folder