Highlight 25: A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney

Published: Jan. 30, 2023, 10 a.m.

b"This month we\\u2019re discussing \\u201cA Blade So Black\\u201d by L.L. McKinney, the first book in the NightmareVerse trilogy, retelling Alice in Wonderland with a Bi Black girl from Atlanta, Georgia.\\n\\nPUBLISHER: Imprint\\n\\n\\nYEAR: 2018\\n\\n\\nLENGTH: 384 pages\\n\\n\\nAGE: Young Adult\\n\\n\\nGENRE: Fantasy\\n\\n\\nRECOMMENDED: Highly\\n\\nTopic 1: PTSD. Begins at (1:35), CW for racism, police brutality, murder, child death.\\nTopic 2: \\u201cHouse\\u201d Arrest. Begins at (12:58), CW for confinement, death.\\nTopic 3: Wounds. Begins at (26:07), CW for medical content.\\nPromo for Saturday Morning Confidential from Certain POV; Spoiler-free wrap-up and ratings: Begins at (33:14).\\nBook TWs: Graphic/Explicit CW for grief, blood, violence. Moderate CW for sexual content, cursing, adult/minor relationship, vomit, gore, murder, injury detail, child death, parental death, death. Minor CW for ableist language, racism, dementia, alcohol, gun violence, body horror. Brief Harry Potter reference.\\n---\\nIf you'd like to make a monthly donation, please check us out on Patreon.\\nTo make a one-time donation please support us on Ko-Fi.\\nFor fortnightly news and updates, as well as links to recent written reviews, subscribe to our newsletter.\\nYou can check out Robin's written review of the book at Reviews That Burn.\\xa0\\nFind all our links on our Carrd.\\nMusic provided by HeartBeatArt and is used with permission.\\nMembers of the Certain Point of View network of podcasts."