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delvesinshelves's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Violence, Murder, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage
Minor: Torture
ekmoore11's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Graphic: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Death, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Racism and Sexism
Minor: Abortion
drenvirobook'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? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Confinement, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Child death, and Death
kalayk's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Confinement, Death, Trafficking, Violence, Child death, and Sexism
Minor: Excrement, Abortion, Alcohol, Gore, Classism, Grief, and Miscarriage
willyzita's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Minor: Miscarriage
becksusername'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? No
5.0
Re-Read: Holy fucking shit I love this book. The ending fucked me up all over again, but in a different way because I knew what was coming.
Graphic: Medical content, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Confinement, Outing, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Murder and Kidnapping
Minor: Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Gun violence, and Infertility
alldebstinations'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? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Infertility, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Infertility, Kidnapping, and Miscarriage
Minor: Blood, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Infertility, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Medical content, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Torture, Trafficking, and Violence
pastelwriter's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
The main reason this book didn’t work for me was because I didn’t like Cedar. I’m unfortunately one of those readers that has to either bond with the protagonists or not be explicitly bothered by them. In this book, the protagonist just did not work for me. Between her religiousness and her hopeful outlook in absolute everything despite the world being absolute chaos, I just couldn’t deal with her.
In addition, the author is the audiobook narrator...and I did not like her as a narrator. I’m usually a fan of when authors narrate their books, but it did not work for me here. It just made Cedar feel even more annoying to me.
Regardless, I was intrigued by the change the world was going through in this book. I appreciated the premise and was intrigued by it. I thought there was a realistic portrayal of what the world may come to if the events of this book were to occur in real life. The premise was what kept me reading because I did genuinely want to know what would happen next.
At the end of the day, my thoughts aren’t worth much because it was for incredibly subjective reasons that this book didn’t work for me. I would still highly recommend it. Form your own opinion on it.
Graphic: Miscarriage
corinnereads7's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Infertility, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Murder, Pregnancy, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence
datamonkey's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Infertility, Violence, Sexism, Pregnancy, Murder, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, and Kidnapping