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dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This was such a beautiful book, and I wept on and off through the last fifty pages. I don’t know how Lauren Groff always does that to me. No one can convince me she’s not a prophet, either. Reading this book ten years after it was written, it’s really spooky knowing that an extremely similar virus actually came to pass around the same time that she predicted in this novel. She encompasses so many themes in this book—life and death, inevitability of what awaits us with climate change, coming of age. It was soso good, just so good. I’m now on a mission to read every single one of Lauren Groff’s novels before The Vaster Wilds comes out in September.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cultural appropriation, Excrement, Rape, Animal death, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death of parent, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
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