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Lark Ascending by Silas House

6 reviews

hanlikefawn's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

A very quick, painfully beautiful read. It felt intentionally heart-wrenching and at moments like the author wanted us to suffer reading it. I don’t love this vision of our future and I generally prefer more hopeful dystopian fiction, but I think this is an important read that will linger with me for a while.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Death, Child death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Homophobia

abscott's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, War, Murder, Animal cruelty, Grief, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Homophobia, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide attempt, Racism, and Torture

___'s review

adventurous dark inspiring tense medium-paced

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

3.0

The protagonist made some really dumb decisions I have a hard time forgiving. I also wasn't invested enough in the characters to care about the romantic element at all. Both the narration and editing were kinda weird at times too.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Murder, and Death

Minor: Death of parent, Homophobia, and Child death

emlen's review

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

• 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Blood, Confinement, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Genocide, Grief, Animal cruelty, Gore, and Slavery

Moderate: Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Colonisation, Trafficking, War, Torture, and Misogyny

guinness74's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

As with every book by Silas House that I read, I’m both grateful for the pages and disappointed that there are not more of them. I think because he’s such a great story teller, I could maybe just ‘listen’ to him tell his words, his friends, his worlds forever on end. Lark Ascending is merely the latest in an ever-growing collection of wonderful books to experience. And, while this one is terrifying in its makeup, not least of which because it seems as though it’s moments away from reality, it’s still a beautiful story full of hope. But, damn you Silas for putting Seamus in this one, but thank you also because it made me hug my dog that much closer. We don’t deserve them, but we are grateful for their love and friendship.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Animal cruelty, Grief, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, and War

shieldbearer's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, Homophobia, Hate crime, Gun violence, Mental illness, Police brutality, Violence, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Classism, Confinement, Medical content, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Racism and Vomit