luna’s Reviews > Boom Town > Status Update

i’m hate reading this piece of shit for the black history month reading challenge because everything else is worse. the people who chose the selections need to be smacked.

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.