Review: Jade is a Twisted Green, Tanya Turton

**ARC provided by the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review**

Jade is a Twisted Green, by Tanya Turto, follows the story of a young black, queer woman living in Toronto. The story follows Jade as she struggles with the grief and aftermath of losing her twin sister and discovering her own sexuality.

Turton's prose whilst being beautiful and lyrical failed to mesmerise me. The writing was very drawn out and offered little world-building, which really cut back on the experience of reading a coming-of-age story. The multiple POVs did not result in providing different visuals and thoughts but only took away from the flow of the story. Also, the addition of Roza's (her dead twin sister) POV didn't really add anything to the growth of Jade and instead only increased the word count of the book. Regardless of these, Turton made some immaculate points about the process of grief and coping with it.

While I could ignore the writing and the plot holes, the biggest hurdle that stopped me from giving this book a good rating was its portrayal of polyamory. A polyamorous relationship only goes on the right path when both/all the parties included have given their consent or have agreed to certain things. But, Jade here was clearly cheating on her partners under the guise of "finding things out". This portrayal really soured the deal for me here, and paints poly people in a negative way and does not do them justice.

Overall despite its beautiful cover and extremely well-written overview, the book did not live up to my expectations and this is why I am obliged to not give it a 5-star rating. The editing and the formatting of the book is another issue to bring up as it is evident the ebook was not well edited and formatted from the misplacement of the first letters of many words and the chapter separation, which only made the book more confusing. I really really hope that Turton and the editor pay heed to this and make it a more pleasurable read.

xx,

Ozzy<3