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dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Emma Glass' writing is beautiful and hypnotic. Rest and Be Thankful is a one -sitting novella that provides an intensely upsetting look into the reality of pediatric end of life care. This narrative is so effective and believable that it was no surprise to find out that the story's narrator and Glass herself share a profession. As the novella progresses, the narrator sleeps less and less and is increasingly desperate for a full night's rest. Her insomnia and hallucinations ultimately lend the book's final pages a hellish nightmare quality.
Much like Mieko Kawakami's Heaven, Rest and Be Thankful is an excellent book that put me in a real life depressive funk. I loved it, I hated it, I wouldn't recommend it unless you like books that make you miserable.
Much like Mieko Kawakami's Heaven, Rest and Be Thankful is an excellent book that put me in a real life depressive funk. I loved it, I hated it, I wouldn't recommend it unless you like books that make you miserable.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Infertility, Chronic illness, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Child death
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