 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another book review. So today we are talking about so lucky, I might have to get close so you guys can see. This is really really dark cover, awesome cover by the way. I really like it. By Nicola Griffith, this was sent to me for review by McDee Books and FSG Originals. They also sent me The Mirror Wife and another one, a short collection of essays called Look Lively out there, something like that. I can't remember. But I'll be doing, I'm really enjoying that one by Sloane Crosley, Crosby, something like that. But I'll be doing a review on that. But that was going to take me a while because I do essays and whatnot over a longer period of time. But they sent me this one, a little funny story. They were supposed to only send me The Mirror Wife, but UPS screwed up and sent the package back to them. That's a whole video on itself. And they were nice enough when they messaged me on Instagram. They were nice enough to send me an entire box of stuff. So they sent me The Mirror Wife, So Lucky and that other book. This one actually came with a little box of branded matches and a placard for promo stuff. I don't have any of that stuff on me right now. I'm sorry. But the book, the book really doesn't need all that extra promo stuff because the book is pretty dang awesome. I really appreciated parts of this more because I've been disabled since 2011. I know I don't talk about it too much. I don't want that to overshadow my work or anything else. I don't want to be known as Edward Lauren, the disabled author of this, or Edward Lauren, the disabled YouTuber. I pretty much, I want to stand on my own two feet. No bad puns intended there. I'm sorry. Anyways. And this book, I was a little trepidatious when I went into it. And you can read more about that in my Goodreads review. I'll link down there in the doobly-doo. But I'm glad to say I really didn't have any problems with this other than there's a subplot, main plot-ish kind of murder mystery whatnot that kind of goes nowhere and is wrapped up way too simply for my taste. But I love that certain aspects of this had to do with being more than your disability, being more than your illness, and how we're all human and we should all be treated like humans. I know some of you that follow me are not really anti-SJW, but you don't like politics or anything in that realm. This does not preach to you. There are some really great lines that will make you look at things a little differently. I'm going to read one of those here in a minute. I don't think it's a spoiler, so I'll read over it real quick to make sure or not. But there are aspects of this book where her disability, her pain is personified. And I think those are my favorite parts about this book. If any of you have read my novel, The Sound of Broken Ribs, there are a lot of similar ideas in my book and this book not to say at all that she took any ideas from me. I'm sure she hasn't read me at all. But in fact she probably didn't even know who I was until I tweeted her for the first time to tell her how much I was enjoying the book. The personification of her disability and the way that wraps up is pitch perfect. The very last couple pages of this book I loved and I think that's why I didn't care as much for the murder mystery aspect because that was such a strong aspect of the book. I didn't feel we needed the murder mystery aspect. So I'm going to read you one line that I really, really appreciated and it made me think not differently because I already felt this way to an extent but she puts it so much better. I don't think there's any, yeah there's no spoilers here but I am not going to give you the context of which it's in because that would be a spoiler. What is said is this is a character speaking well you'll figure that out in a second. No I said every time there's a serial rapist out there police say ladies stay indoors for your own good why don't they ever say men don't rape men there's a curfew inside by 10 the world cut off your balls why should I have to stay away from my home why should I yeah why should I stay away from my home why should I let these people terrorize me into lying down and turning my face to the wall now there is something to be said like you don't have to tell people not to rape you know it's common sense that they know not to rape but why are women told that there's a curfew that they need to stay inside why aren't men told hey if we catch you if we catch you guys out there the rapist if we catch you out there then we're going to come and get you maybe not cut off your balls like she said but you get where I'm going with that so the both sides of the equation I like her side better I like her side of the argument better because it it would make more sense to say men here's a curfew don't be outside you know this is to cut down the rates it makes much more sense than telling the victims or the possible victims to stay at home and there's a lot of stuff like that not rape wise but there's a lot of stuff there's a lot of common sense stuff in here that I just never thought about and yes they say common sense isn't that common anymore but there's a lot of stuff that made me look at it differently and anytime a piece of literature changes the way I look at something I'm a sucker for that that's one of my favorite things I read to be changed I read to have my my points of view challenged and that's something Nicola Griffith did and I really do appreciate that so have you read so lucky have you read anything by this author let me know down there in the doobly-doo until next time I have any you've been you it's been another book review I'll talk to you guys later bye