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lchelle_bester's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Child death, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Addiction and Alcoholism
Minor: Domestic abuse
tiemzahra's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Alcoholism and Child abuse
Minor: Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy
northernlitreading's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Alcohol
emtay's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
An exploration of grief, family, and perseverance. What happens when the we believe a truth so fully that we become blinded to reality. Bears a hint of the message that we all cope with grief, with life, differently and to know someone means entering that space and knowing it together.
“She can look at a person and see right into their very soul… She will take a person for who they are, not what they are not or ought to be”. Agnes loses sight of this, in the throws of grief and habits of youth, but I believe finds her way home to herself.
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Alcoholism and Child abuse
excritos's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Terminal illness
Moderate: Death and Abandonment
Minor: Alcoholism and Violence
alrauna'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: Child death and Terminal illness
Moderate: Domestic abuse
Minor: Alcoholism
oliviafaye's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Alcohol
ophelia_reads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, Death of parent, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Alcoholism and Emotional abuse
Minor: Sexual content
sarah984's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
The writing is repetitious and florid (I get that it's for emphasis but some paragraphs just felt like lists of synonyms) and the characterization of Anne (Agnes) as this kind of stereotypical "witchy" wise woman was annoying. Her supernatural ability to randomly know things seemed like a literary device to tell information the author didn't know how to show. The vaguely supernatural cause of Hamnet’s death was also stupid. If this wasn't billed as straight historical fiction this probably wouldn't bug me so much, but it is and it does.
Graphic: Child death, Medical content, Grief, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Sexual content
Minor: Infidelity, Racial slurs, and Abortion