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On Sundays, She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Scholfield

7 reviews

jamesfitz3's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I loved a lot about this book. The prose was beautiful. The commentary on womanhood and queerness and mothers and society. 

However if definitely suffers from being self published. I would love to see a version of this book that has gone through an editor. Some of the punctuation was off, and not in man intentional way, and there were more than a few instances of fully the wrong word being used. It’s a shame. I still highly recommend the read though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Cannibalism, Murder, Child abuse, and Blood

gravery's review

dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

There were some formatting issues in my copy, which I guess is to be expected from a self-published book bought on Amazon, and many typos that might have been fixed with a beta reader or two. The pacing also felt inconsistent, but for a debut novel it wasn't bad. I also wish that we had seen more of Jude's adulthood prior to her mother's murder, which happened only 25 pages in.

That being said, Yah Yah's use of language is poignant and haunting. They paint evocative pictures, vivid and grotesque with their use of metaphor and imagery. The characters are three-dimensional, their relationships real and beautifully dark - the romance between

Jude and Nemoira

was an unexpected, but nevertheless pleasant surprise that added both tension an depth to the story. On Sundays is a delightfully Gothic debut novel, one for which Scholfield deserves some recognition, and I look forward to seeing what they come up with next.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Child abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Racism and Cannibalism

Minor: Religious bigotry, Self harm, and Vomit

hapikohw's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Blood, Self harm, Vomit, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Gore, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Violence

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Animal death, Death of parent, Violence, Mental illness, Murder, Self harm, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Racism, and Vomit

Minor: Gun violence, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, and Excrement

jaan's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I’m a vegetarian by birth and by choice, and I can’t stop thinking about this book.

It could have done with some proofreading for sure, but I don’t think the errors were as big a deal as some folks online say. Just made the story more human to me. I was intently aware, to a bigger degree, that a person had written it vs. a story just kind of existing on it’s own. 

I do think the latter bits, set in Jude’s childhood were written with less narrative and metaphorical skill Yah Yah showed with most of the story. I would have liked for it to have been longer, for example.

Read this book!! Mind the content warnings before you do, though. Truly excellent.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Violence, Murder, and Death of parent

Minor: Vomit

noahsingh's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

finally got my hands on a copy of this book, so good, yah yah really knows what they're doing!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Racism, Self harm, Murder, Animal death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Homophobia, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, and Dysphoria

sarah984's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

This was basically a 2-star read for me, but I dropped the second star because there were so many typos that some parts were nearly unreadable, which made the experience really frustrating.

I think I can see why people liked this story but it wasn't for me. Somehow despite being so short it dragged on way too long, the time skips felt pointless, and the fairy tale aspects didn't mix well with the more modern parts of the book for me.

No one reported that Pontiac stolen in 17 years? No one noticed all those people dying?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Grief, Gore, Vomit, Ableism, Blood, Body shaming, Cannibalism, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Gun violence, Excrement, Homophobia, and Racism