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augie_'s review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Violence, Toxic friendship, Death, Medical content, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Hate crime, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Infidelity, and Grief
risemini's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Medical content, Infidelity, Death, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Alcohol, Blood, Gun violence, Grief, Cancer, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship
readbycarina's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Cancer, Toxic friendship, Child death, Grief, Hate crime, Death, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Homophobia, Classism, Abandonment, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Mental illness, Death of parent, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Terminal illness
girlsiread's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Violence, Child death, and Homophobia
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content
amaya_jam's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Homophobia and Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Child death
ktkeps's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Sexism, Classism, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Child death, and Misogyny
Moderate: Abandonment, Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Sexual content, Ableism, Transphobia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Medical content, and Violence
quickermorequickly's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Ferrante does unsettling very, very well. Reading this series (as well as The Days of Abandonment) is like taking stiff shots of very different, equally strong emotions, and then realizing you're drunk, and stumbling through a sinister amusement park. In a good way, I swear!
I found Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay and The Story of the Lost Child to be less enchanting than the earlier installments of the series, if only because I haven't yet been through most of those life stages yet and so the pings of deep recognition or identification were less frequent. But I think the more time I spend on this planet seeing sad and strange things happen, the more I will recognize.
Hats off to Ann Goldstein for this very long project of translation.
Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Toxic friendship, Grief, Murder, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Blood, Violence, Suicide, Kidnapping, and Terminal illness
Minor: Abandonment, Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Outing