I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

4.25 AVERAGE

emilywhatson's review

4.0
This book is a puzzle not designed to be solved. This is not your wine-o’clock romance, feel-good read. 

“A book from a hundred years ago or a hundred years in the future.”

elisabethj200's review

4.0
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

bio_chem06's review

It was just too slow, I tried to push through but after a few sentences my mind would wonder.
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simonnebee's review against another edition

4.0
adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced
Bleak but very interesting. Honestly have more questions than answers

cheffsamseyy's review

4.5
adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

genevievepet's review against another edition

4.0
challenging dark mysterious sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No

lroman's review

4.0
adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
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chloejo1026's review against another edition

4.5
challenging dark mysterious reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
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thelly's review

4.5
dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

nolongerbright's review

5.0
challenging dark reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
staring blankly off into the distance as i ponder existence

But a sky does not die, it is I who am dying, who was already dying in this bunker—and I tell myself that I am alone in this land that no longer has any jailers, or prisoners, unaware of what I came here to do, the mistress of silence, owner of bunkers and corpses. (p.159)