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3.59 AVERAGE
3.59 AVERAGE
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Shmutz started out strong but completely fizzled out by the end.
Raizl never even tried. It was always someone else’s fault, never her own. She wants to be “cured” without having to put in any work and that’s just not how it works. It made for a frustrating read.
Raizl never even tried. It was always someone else’s fault, never her own. She wants to be “cured” without having to put in any work and that’s just not how it works. It made for a frustrating read.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
• this was about a young Hasidic girl Raizl rebelling from her community, gaining a porn (shmutz) addiction, and exploring her sexuality while simultaneously trying to find a husband in an arranged marriage sort of way.
• it was decent enough but I really hated the ending. *spoilers: I really wanted her to explore more with Sam and was really cheering for her to leave her strict fundamentalist family, but that’s not what we ended up with.
• there were a lot of smaller stories, besides Sam, I really wanted to know more about. Like I wanted her to keep going to therapy and deconstructing her communities views and the homophobia and racism they lightly touched on the quickly went back to porn. there was also something really weird and vaguely SA happening with the Rebbetzen that was brought up multiple times all the way to the last few chapters but never explained or dove into. It just feels like there were a lot of missed opportunities to tell more of Raizl’s story.
• it was decent enough but I really hated the ending. *spoilers: I really wanted her to explore more with Sam and was really cheering for her to leave her strict fundamentalist family, but that’s not what we ended up with.
• there were a lot of smaller stories, besides Sam, I really wanted to know more about. Like I wanted her to keep going to therapy and deconstructing her communities views and the homophobia and racism they lightly touched on the quickly went back to porn. there was also something really weird and vaguely SA happening with the Rebbetzen that was brought up multiple times all the way to the last few chapters but never explained or dove into. It just feels like there were a lot of missed opportunities to tell more of Raizl’s story.
challenging
emotional
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes