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The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischwili

11 reviews

clarezillaa's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Miscarriage, Child death, Rape, Torture, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Murder, Sexual assault, War, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Physical abuse, Drug abuse, Pregnancy, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Death of parent and Addiction

Minor: Outing, Suicide, Antisemitism, Gun violence, Homophobia, and Mental illness

galerieanna25's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, War, Sexual assault, Rape, Torture, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug abuse, Suicide attempt, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Sexism, Panic attacks/disorders, Miscarriage, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Child death, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Murder

scifipunk's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Infidelity, Medical trauma, War, Rape, Death, and Alcohol

Minor: Suicide, Abortion, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, Dementia, Deportation, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Infertility, Homophobia, and Murder

Note that all minor warnings refer to usually less than a page of content, not explicit and are easy to skim or skip. Grief is not particularly explicit, only tagged as major because it is a recurring theme for several characters. Alcohol (and alcohol abuse) is mentioned several times with different characters, including as response to trauma, but not explicit. Death is never explicit, but given that the novel takes place within 107 years, to be expected. Medical trauma refers to a long scene early in Kitty’s part of the book, which involves a traumatic encounter with the soviet secret service. Can be easily skipped, as consequences are addressed later on. Several wars are mentioned, multiple characters experience a traumatic rape, though most of both happens off-screen or is somewhat censored by the narrator.

towardinfinitybooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Rape, and Alcohol

Moderate: War, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Addiction, Cursing, Sexual violence, Violence, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

Minor: Drug abuse, Abandonment, Torture, and Drug use

qqjj's review

adventurous challenging dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Self harm, Abortion, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Body horror, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Torture, War, Gaslighting, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

sara_n's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Murder, Suicide attempt, Grief, Rape, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Drug abuse, War, Addiction, Drug use, Alcoholism, Blood, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Alcohol, Death, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Police brutality, Eating disorder, Bullying, Cancer, and Pedophilia

chia_ie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

this book took me almost 2 months to read. but it was so worth it. i have this feeling of like … what do i do now? 

the ending was so good. the very few past pages. so, so good. the characters were all so flawed, so human. but i loved them all regardless. it was as if i actually knew them. the stories were surreal, yet gutting to read, because i fear that some of the events that took place are not far from the reality of life back then. 

if you have the patience, i would absolutely recommend this book. the one downside is that i didn’t find it to be a book i could relax with. i had to be focused to work out the connections between characters and such. i even ended up drawing family trees to help myself 

this book was great. i’ll miss the Jashis.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Abortion, War, Suicide, Police brutality, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Murder, Death, Torture, Addiction, Violence, Medical trauma, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexism, Cancer, Alcohol, Grief, and Alcoholism

atiaijaz's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A

5.0

What a story! What a gift of storytelling! There was not one single page I was bored or asked myself if reading the whole thing was worth it. I want a 3 season tv-series made from this so that I can laugh, cry, mourn and love again with Brilka's family. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Rape, Miscarriage, Murder, Self harm, and Mental illness

Moderate: Blood, Suicide, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Alcohol, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Abortion, Addiction, and Death

machenn's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion and Rape

Moderate: Alcohol, Death, Grief, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Blood, Violence, and War

Minor: Cancer, Homophobia, and Bullying

quickermorequickly's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad

• 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

4.5

My heart! A book that I needed to read with Wikipedia at the ready, this is a very human history of a century of constant upheaval, spanning six generations of a family in Georgia. It did not seem as long as its 900+ pages, and certainly was not a slow read either. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Torture, Miscarriage, and Grief

Moderate: Abortion, War, Violence, Suicide, Sexual content, Self harm, Infidelity, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Blood, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Homophobia