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3.31 AVERAGE
3.31 AVERAGE
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A biting, beautiful character study with so much heart. I am newly in love with Ivy Pochoda, and I didn’t even know about her until now. This book is worth the journey, and though the premise (prison, pandemic) is interesting by itself, the character study is what makes it. You will care about the characters, and you should. Thank you for the ARC, this review is written purely based on opinion.
challenging
dark
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is a well-written, brutal depiction of lives in and out of actual or imagined prisons. Multiple POVs. hard to follow at times, but powerful and lyrical. Unlike anything I normally read, I appreciated this book rather than enjoyed it.
I received a complimentary copy of the novel from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I received a complimentary copy of the novel from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
A three-way cat-and-mouse asking: what seeds violence in women? Is it different from violence in men? Who has the power to extinguish it? And whose story take precedence?
Sing Her Down
Intense
Twisting
Dark
Psychological
Thriller
I really enjoyed this book! It was a sorta slow burn with a dark intensity that was building and building through the twists! I liked the multiple points of view and all of the characters! Great ending!
I had the audio book version and loved it!
Thanks net galley for the Arc!
Intense
Twisting
Dark
Psychological
Thriller
I really enjoyed this book! It was a sorta slow burn with a dark intensity that was building and building through the twists! I liked the multiple points of view and all of the characters! Great ending!
I had the audio book version and loved it!
Thanks net galley for the Arc!
adventurous
challenging
dark
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Pochoda's latest novel is a modern day female western played out across the initial lockdown period in 2020. It is hallucinatory and dream-like in the beginning with the Covid-deserted streets and tent cities playing their part in making up the dreamscape of latter day Arizona and L.A.
Dios believes Florida is a much worse person than she lets on. That Florida harbours the same violent desires as her with our introduction to Dios being her stabbing a fellow inmate in the cheek with a fork and torqueing and shredding until she is dragged away. Due to the pandemic, early releases are being granted to inmates and Florida soon finds herself back in the real world, but imprisoned within a motel for two weeks of quarantine and seeks an impromptu escape back to her hometown.
This is a difficult one to fully explain without giving the whole game away, but in essence the women of the book are simultaneously prepetrators and victims. They have reacted or acted in crimes with or against men who themselves are committing transgressions, but are not punished as fully as the women of the novel, if at all.
This is a tremendous novel that puts a female spin on the type of books Cormac McCarthy has written about violence simply begetting more violence.
Dios believes Florida is a much worse person than she lets on. That Florida harbours the same violent desires as her with our introduction to Dios being her stabbing a fellow inmate in the cheek with a fork and torqueing and shredding until she is dragged away. Due to the pandemic, early releases are being granted to inmates and Florida soon finds herself back in the real world, but imprisoned within a motel for two weeks of quarantine and seeks an impromptu escape back to her hometown.
This is a difficult one to fully explain without giving the whole game away, but in essence the women of the book are simultaneously prepetrators and victims. They have reacted or acted in crimes with or against men who themselves are committing transgressions, but are not punished as fully as the women of the novel, if at all.
This is a tremendous novel that puts a female spin on the type of books Cormac McCarthy has written about violence simply begetting more violence.
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes