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brynpemery's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, War, Child death, and Genocide
Moderate: Infidelity and Xenophobia
astronautin's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: War and Confinement
Moderate: Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Xenophobia, and Grief
Minor: Rape, Genocide, and Religious bigotry
minniepauline's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Graphic: Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Violence, Infidelity, War, and Death
Moderate: Islamophobia and Religious bigotry
kirstym25's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Child death, War, and Death
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Grief
feebles640's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
Graphic: Abandonment, Death, War, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Child death and Confinement
ciaomara's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Graphic: Child death, War, Violence, and Confinement
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Body horror, Infidelity, and Mass/school shootings
Minor: Rape
creepycrawlybookworm's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Child death, Grief, War, Death, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Genocide, Medical trauma, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Animal death, and Confinement
booking_along's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
“… do you know what people are calling them? … Black Butterflies… burnet fragments of poetry and art catching in people’s hair.”
this book doesn’t shy away from showing the horror of war from the side of the daily lives of typical people just trying to survive in a horrific situation.
it shows how people can come together, lean on each other help each other through hard situations but also how horrific people can be and most of all this book show just how utterly senseless and stupid war really is.
that it just kills and destroys senselessly and never actually achieves anything positive no matter the outcome since the price on all sides is always too high.
this book had beautiful passages, great characters, frustrating moments and heartbreaking moments.
i did feel like ending was rushed and i wish there would have at least been a little paragraph at the end about all those people left behind in the war zone and what happened to them.
they where just as much characters if this story as Zora was.
i understand why the book ended as it did but i do wish it could have been given just a little more about some of the other characters too.
i think this book is an extremely timely novel, not just to tell a historical event and show the horror of that but also because too many wars are being fought and never shared in this way.
“We’re all refugees now. we spend our days waiting for water, for bread, for humanitarian handouts: beggars in our own city.”
so having a novel that really shows the daily struggles and horror of living in a city that is being bombed and fired on, where people still need to continue on just trying to survive somehow…
this book really does that well.
just as it shows just how wonderful people can be, even in the darkest moments.
honestly the only thing i saw coming but didn’t enjoy was
i would highly recommend this book.
the author has an incredible way with words and manages -fittingly enough since Zora is a painter- paint a clear picture of the situations in the book in ways that really sink into you while reading the story that makes it feel almost too realistic.
my heart raced through some moments in the story, i reared up in others… this book packed a punch through the words the author chose.
and i think that combined with the story itself was an incredible powerful combination.
It’s the kind of book that sticks with you and isn’t a light and easy read but one that makes you think and reflect and most of all: relate to the people in the story and their situation.
Fantastic book!
very well done!
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, Violence, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Blood, Hate crime, and War
miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
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‘The threshold between night and day feels uncertain, as if she could just as easily slip back into the night as go forwards into the day.’
Graphic: Violence, Body horror, Grief, Gun violence, Animal death, War, Death, Murder, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Islamophobia, and Mass/school shootings