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3.31 AVERAGE
3.31 AVERAGE
I'm not sure I can finish this one. We'll see...
Either it got less violent or I got desensitized. I finished it, anyway.
Rough. Sometimes annoying.
Either it got less violent or I got desensitized. I finished it, anyway.
Rough. Sometimes annoying.
Could barely attend to real life while reading this. Ivy Pochoda NEVER disappoints.
If I could advise Jessie Buckley on scripts to option - this would be at the top.
If I could advise Jessie Buckley on scripts to option - this would be at the top.
I enjoyed this one a lot. It took me on this rollercoaster ride and brought me back - all grounded, and introspecting on the nature of human beings. It is brutal, dark, funny, and humane in a very strange way - ironical and also heart-warming at the same time, if that makes any sense.
Sing Her Down is a feminist Western through and through - about two women and the obsessive nature of finding out more about the other, even to just undo them in public. Florence and Diosmary are characters that Pochoda has built with great ambition, grit, and also humour to a very large extent. Both so different, and yet so similar.
Pochoda's writing reminded me of a Cormac McCarthy - the landscape, the humidity and the harshness seeped into my skin as a reader - lending all so beautifully to the progression of the plot and the characters' brutality as well.
Sing Her Down is twisted, intelligent, crackles with wit and energy on almost every page – both characters trying to find their place in the world and truths about each other after being released early from prison due to the pandemic.
I loved the story and the writing. It is not gentle, it isn’t kind – Pochoda ensures from the very first page to tell the readers that this won’t be rosy or kind. The themes of female victimisation, domestic abuse, and how the prison system also works to some extent is realistically explored and very difficult to ignore when reading and perhaps one shouldn’t ignore it at all – it needs to be seen for what it is.
Sing Her Down is a book that everyone must read for its realness, to understand and see the unseen women, to hear their stories, and understand places so different from our realities.
Sing Her Down is a feminist Western through and through - about two women and the obsessive nature of finding out more about the other, even to just undo them in public. Florence and Diosmary are characters that Pochoda has built with great ambition, grit, and also humour to a very large extent. Both so different, and yet so similar.
Pochoda's writing reminded me of a Cormac McCarthy - the landscape, the humidity and the harshness seeped into my skin as a reader - lending all so beautifully to the progression of the plot and the characters' brutality as well.
Sing Her Down is twisted, intelligent, crackles with wit and energy on almost every page – both characters trying to find their place in the world and truths about each other after being released early from prison due to the pandemic.
I loved the story and the writing. It is not gentle, it isn’t kind – Pochoda ensures from the very first page to tell the readers that this won’t be rosy or kind. The themes of female victimisation, domestic abuse, and how the prison system also works to some extent is realistically explored and very difficult to ignore when reading and perhaps one shouldn’t ignore it at all – it needs to be seen for what it is.
Sing Her Down is a book that everyone must read for its realness, to understand and see the unseen women, to hear their stories, and understand places so different from our realities.
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Lots of vivid violance to start off with and settles down a bit, but it's still there. It was fairly predicatble and one that won't live in my mind for long.
A thrilling game of cat-and-mouse between two women who won't put up with any of your s***, thank you very much!
Our main characters, Florence "Florida" Baum and Diosmary "Dios" Sandoval have been drawn to one another since their time as cellmates in an Arizona women's prison, but neither one knows why. When they are both released, Florida and Dios set out on a cross-country revenge trip with deadly consequences. My favorite part of this book was the parallel story of the female detective assigned to track them down. Ivy Pochoda masterfully writes from the perspective of women who have been beaten down time and time again but continue to rise and fight back. The phenomenal voice actors crank the emotions to the next level. (An early scene in the prison's cafeteria had my jaw fully dropped.)
If you loved the dueling femme fatales of Killing Eve or the raw, devastating origin stories of the side characters in Netflix's Orange is the New Black, boy, will Sing Her Down be a treat for you!
Thanks to NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for my honest review.
Our main characters, Florence "Florida" Baum and Diosmary "Dios" Sandoval have been drawn to one another since their time as cellmates in an Arizona women's prison, but neither one knows why. When they are both released, Florida and Dios set out on a cross-country revenge trip with deadly consequences. My favorite part of this book was the parallel story of the female detective assigned to track them down. Ivy Pochoda masterfully writes from the perspective of women who have been beaten down time and time again but continue to rise and fight back. The phenomenal voice actors crank the emotions to the next level. (An early scene in the prison's cafeteria had my jaw fully dropped.)
If you loved the dueling femme fatales of Killing Eve or the raw, devastating origin stories of the side characters in Netflix's Orange is the New Black, boy, will Sing Her Down be a treat for you!
Thanks to NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for my honest review.
It was a nice change of pace from what I normally read. I liked the book and thought it was really interesting. The one thing I didn’t love was the lack of chapters. It makes it hard to read in short bursts because you have to find a good place and there were breaks and I understand why it was that way. Idk just interesting. A little slow at times but good.
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes