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lea_soraya's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
stringbeanbooks's review
this wasn’t what i wanted it to be but i appreciate its beauty and poetic merit. the sheer volume of convoluted metaphors was a lot and most of said metaphors were very lost on me, i wanted more explanation and less interpretation.
bookalong's review
5.0
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"Once I was faultlessly beautiful, and my life depended upon it. I groomed my trembling, long-legged animal. I felt great love, I felt great fear: either way to you, it hardly mattered."
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This book is a contemplative look at the brutality and misogyny against women and of their survival in a small town. Of the men who cause such violence, and of a powerful Chancellor and his horror's. The collapse of this town in a defiance for a better future.
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Peter's has done a beautiful job using different writing styles and voices to share this dark yet at times humorous tale. I really enjoyed this book! I read it in one sitting. Its slim but very dark and raw, it really packs a punch! I loved the mix of poetry and prose and all the vivid imagery. This author was new to me but I need to read more of her work. She's a very talented writer with so much potential.
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Thank you to the publisher for #gifting me this book.
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"Once I was faultlessly beautiful, and my life depended upon it. I groomed my trembling, long-legged animal. I felt great love, I felt great fear: either way to you, it hardly mattered."
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This book is a contemplative look at the brutality and misogyny against women and of their survival in a small town. Of the men who cause such violence, and of a powerful Chancellor and his horror's. The collapse of this town in a defiance for a better future.
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Peter's has done a beautiful job using different writing styles and voices to share this dark yet at times humorous tale. I really enjoyed this book! I read it in one sitting. Its slim but very dark and raw, it really packs a punch! I loved the mix of poetry and prose and all the vivid imagery. This author was new to me but I need to read more of her work. She's a very talented writer with so much potential.
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Thank you to the publisher for #gifting me this book.
zephyrused's review
3.0
took me a ling while to read but i enjoyed it! very lovely writing i have so many yellow highlights on my kindle fnidnjdn
comet__body's review against another edition
5.0
Bumped up to a 5 after listening to the audiobook, which, holy HECK what an experience. The decision to have the book read by dozens of different voices is so smart and effective at translating the sense of this town as a polyvocal entity that the text relies on. As well, having different voices reoccuring with certain chapters makes it much easier to grasp the different characters and narrative threads that are subtly woven throughout this thing. It adds a ton of dimension to the original text and brings it to life and such a vivid and unsettling way. This is not your standard audiobook edition and I highly recommend you listen to it in addition to the original text. It’s even more striking in a single sitting, if you can manage it (the audio runs just over two hours). Everything I’d heard about this audio edition sounded super intriguing and it did not disappoint! I really can’t urge you to listen to this enough.
teaandpetrichor's review against another edition
2.0
😕 I don't read enough poetry to fully appreciate and grasp everything that's going on, here, I don't think. A lot went over my head, and I didn't spend enough time lingering. Some of the images in this book were breathtaking. The characters were complex. I was intrigued by the world building, when it was there. But I wanted more information. More plot, instead of hints and sporadic images. Maybe that's why I didn't stop and analyze as much; I kept waiting for everything to come together in a more concrete way. This is technically a novel (or was advertised as such), so I'm a bit disappointed. But Sara Peters did leave me with some lovely and horrifying images.
stevendedalus's review against another edition
4.0
It's a beautiful mess of a book: mixed up, throwing symbolism and imagery every which way, occasionalky making sense in a hazy way before smudging again.
One of those things you don't necessarily enjoy reading but you find yourself picking up again for another hit of semi-linked poetry-prose.
The whole feels greater than the sum of its parts, few of which really cut deep or sharply. But they accumulate against your mind and slowly work their way in until you get that experimental buzz of kind of liking it but confused and kind of annoyed that happens with so much experimental work.
One of those things you don't necessarily enjoy reading but you find yourself picking up again for another hit of semi-linked poetry-prose.
The whole feels greater than the sum of its parts, few of which really cut deep or sharply. But they accumulate against your mind and slowly work their way in until you get that experimental buzz of kind of liking it but confused and kind of annoyed that happens with so much experimental work.
unnaturalhistory's review against another edition
3.0
A little more experimental than I was ready for, I think, but still managed to evoke an emotional reaction. I'm just not entirely sure what that reaction is, yet. 3/5
sweatyicedcoffee's review against another edition
4.0
this is such an incredible work. it is bonkers and vile but jaw dropping.
peter’s “town” is executed so skillfully, and she touches on how it feels to live in a feminine body being ripped to shreds in multiple different ways, repeatedly, in a way that touches feelings and ideas i’ve never been able to articulate. her prose is so so so good. i can’t get over it.
this is both a miserable but cathartic read. i see the comparisons to women talking by miriam toews, but peters goes through the body in a way that toews didn’t - women talking was very cerebral. this is deeply embodied and feeling and very in place.
peter’s “town” is executed so skillfully, and she touches on how it feels to live in a feminine body being ripped to shreds in multiple different ways, repeatedly, in a way that touches feelings and ideas i’ve never been able to articulate. her prose is so so so good. i can’t get over it.
this is both a miserable but cathartic read. i see the comparisons to women talking by miriam toews, but peters goes through the body in a way that toews didn’t - women talking was very cerebral. this is deeply embodied and feeling and very in place.