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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia
Minor: Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Abortion, Alcohol, Classism
dark
reflective
tense
medium-paced
mysterious
tense
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:
Complicated
dark
mysterious
tense
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
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I really enjoyed this read for the most part but I have 2 major gripes.
1. It needed an epilogue, it feels like theres no pay off to the 400 pages of buildup to seeing the big bad thing at the end of the book. Thats hard to do with the journal structure but a short one or two page epilogue might have been able to give a sliver of a glimpse of the thing in the woods that I would have appreciated.
2. I have issues with the feminist characterization of this book. Like yes we love a queer feminist anti-hero, but why is the majority of her vitriol and violence reserved for the other women in the town who have mostly been kind to her- who are also victims of the world they live in and the men who control it? I find very little by way of empowerment in this book, AND THATS OKAY. Maybe this critique is more for other readers that the author. This is very much a book about women's WRONGS. Its a character decent into madness, that yes endues her with newly found power in a society where women have little, but it also makes her cruel and horrible it makes her into the monster at the end of the book.
I read this right after Slewfoot by Brom which has a violent but cathartic ending where the people who deserve comeuppance get it, and this was definitely not cathartic.
1. It needed an epilogue, it feels like theres no pay off to the 400 pages of buildup to seeing the big bad thing at the end of the book. Thats hard to do with the journal structure but a short one or two page epilogue might have been able to give a sliver of a glimpse of the thing in the woods that I would have appreciated.
2. I have issues with the feminist characterization of this book. Like yes we love a queer feminist anti-hero, but why is the majority of her vitriol and violence reserved for the other women in the town who have mostly been kind to her- who are also victims of the world they live in and the men who control it? I find very little by way of empowerment in this book, AND THATS OKAY. Maybe this critique is more for other readers that the author. This is very much a book about women's WRONGS. Its a character decent into madness, that yes endues her with newly found power in a society where women have little, but it also makes her cruel and horrible it makes her into the monster at the end of the book.
I read this right after Slewfoot by Brom which has a violent but cathartic ending where the people who deserve comeuppance get it, and this was definitely not cathartic.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-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