luna’s Reviews > Boom Town > Status Update

oh good. let’s add rape.

i hate the multiple narrator format. i detest the flashback format. i despise when authors name all the characters so similarly or vaguely that i cannot keep them straight. when you combine all three it’s a recipe for frustration. add multiple nicknames and stage names for every character to all three, and this book is a fucking nightmare. and the explicit depictions of body parts was repulsive.

i don’t think every book by a black author is filled with abuse and grotesque sex so why are all the choices for goodreads’ black history month challenge so upsetting. this is the third book i have tried from the challenge. as much as i like nonfiction, the reality in 2026 makes reading about abuse triggering. the novels are all violent and abusive. do better.