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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
emotional
sad
medium-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
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
dark
funny
medium-paced
Close enough, welcome back William Shakespeare.
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
While I was uncomfortable with the sexual abuse/incest of Hal’s father and I stepped away from the book for a time, I was pulled back to the story and Hal’s life.
It was a sunny day, cool and dry, with a blue sky high-vaulted but not infinite, and a breeze that carried Ha's smoke away.
In the middle of the dining room, his vision succumbed again to mould-like spots of white and purple, as if his body were decaying while he was living in it.
Why now, with so many years of experience, could he not look at a picture of himself and tell whether it had happened yet? It didn't matter, he supposed. He would have always been what he was.
Hal wanted, with the petulance of the conscious sinner who has just been given cause for remorse, to be put back into the body he'd been given when he was born, and have another chance to keep it pure.
Smoking, they fell into silence. Hal, having forgotten, remembered the pity of the world.
Once a real thing had passed into memory, it was just as unreal as a dream.
He had the insomniac's look of tiredness past tiredness, the widower's look of grief past grief.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Incest, Sexual assault
dark
fast-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book made me miserable and expected me to like it. I did.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Sexual assault
Minor: Gun violence
challenging
dark
funny
sad
medium-paced
dark
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes