6/20/2023 0 Comments Well Wished by Franny Billingsley![]() ![]() While Rose’s autism is tied into what is happening to Briony, and Briony’s feelings about and relationship with Rose are very central to the story, it isn’t a story about autism. That said, the book isn’t actually about Rose being autistic-which is a nice change, as I rarely see autistic characters where the focus of the story isn’t either their autism or the incredible powers/abilities that autistic characters in scifi and fantasy often have. ![]() ![]() We know this, because she spends a large portion of the first two chapters telling us how much she hates Rose (and just about everything else, including herself). Briony resents this, and resents her sister. Briony has spent a great deal of her life taking care of Rose, and even gave up going away to school partly to take care of her. Briony’s twin sister, Rose, is autistic, although due to the early 20 th-century setting that word is never actually used. While many of the things that bothered me early on continued, many also got better as the book went on, and by the end Chime had sort of redeemed itself.Ĭhime is a YA fantasy story, told from the point of view of a young woman, Briony, who believes herself to be a witch. I’ll start with this: if I hadn’t agreed in advance to read this book, I would probably have stopped two chapters in. ![]()
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