Toni’s Reviews > The Gods Will Sing Our Song > Status Update

(p302)Akira brings toys to life, makes them float above a bunch of kids, and the kids think it's "ecstatic". Not scared for one second, but hell, they are already in a detention camp, half without fathers probably, so yeah, toys suddenly coming to life and "flying" would be a fuk delight, no doubt! So Disney...if they only wait 13yrs for Disneyland to exist! Can you imagine how magical that would be!

Cringy "love" scene. It's PG-13, no sex, just kissing, tousled hair, and eye-rolling dialogue. A scene straight out of "The Notebook" without sex. And out of "Titanic".

(p234) Aikra is "explained" but he's a pointless god with zero purpose or point. I don't get it still? Eating avocado, lol!!

(p167) Akira, a god, gets rounded up by the US government yet given his own barrack....I hope this gets explained because it makes hella no sense...because if the gods can be captured and put in detention camps...wtaf?

(p106) Ren knows secrets of the camp like ppl drinking booze and distilling booze but he can't find any secrets of doctors/nurses in a camp of 10,000 ppl and 10 doctors to help his sister...glaring problem with this narrative for a 1942 teenager!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(p95) quoting Star Trek in 1942...

(p76) runs into Kai & asks Kai's doctor father to come see his sick sister. Before that Ren, was spending his time trying to get under the barbed wires to get free air and maybe fish (p48) instead of asking around to the hundreds of ppl in the camp (of which there were probably more than the nurse that was on his bus) to help his sister.

(p61)“You might as well be running the yakuza.”
The Yakuza did not operate in the United States in the 1940s, as Japanese organized crime in America only emerged during the late 1960s.

(p51)"I’m not foolish. I’ve heard what people say about anyone who supports the authorities. Long before we arrived, talk of informants and collaborators flew fast and wide." but she didn't know about latrines or that she would need tampax napkins, what did she do in those long days at school?

Super YA- everything is TOLD
FMC is so superficial & annoying as fuck as written, disjointed. At this early start, she could probably end WWII if it weren't for latrines?! OMG, who in the 1940s had to be told what a latrine was? (page 43) She's more concerned with the wrinkles in her dress and the canned apricots (p.48) as if those were her biggest fears. Also, no talk of being Japanese other than a few words