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4.16 AVERAGE
4.16 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Plot Twist Season 1 - Book 8: This was a really well written novel about mental health. It was descriptive and imaginative and gave such amazing explanations of not only the person coping but the people around them and how they've been impacted. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this read.
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This hit soo hard. The writing was vivid… I could feel the void right along with our protagonist, at times, making it hard to read because the out of body feeling was too real.
We follow Martha’s inner dialog, she feels like she is crazy, she doesn’t understand why she gets soo mad or why she doesn’t feel normal, and thinks she is the worst person. She feels out of control and angry at a world that doesn’t understand her, that wants her to just be normal. She is loved by her sister and loved by her husband and family, which only makes things harder for Martha. It’s not all depression either. As the title suggests… Sorrow and bliss is exactly what you get.
I recommend to anyone!
We follow Martha’s inner dialog, she feels like she is crazy, she doesn’t understand why she gets soo mad or why she doesn’t feel normal, and thinks she is the worst person. She feels out of control and angry at a world that doesn’t understand her, that wants her to just be normal. She is loved by her sister and loved by her husband and family, which only makes things harder for Martha. It’s not all depression either. As the title suggests… Sorrow and bliss is exactly what you get.
I recommend to anyone!
This one started so slow but glad I stuck with it! I loved it!!
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
For me, this book was a chew. Relentlessly depressing from start to finish
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I wasn't sure if I was going to like this book. It starts with a strong narrative voice that's quite literary - many of the sentences are stilted, as the narrator struggles to find her words, or it's too verbose, over wordy and somewhat tricky to follow.
At the start, the main characters were just not for me. Yes, faced with their own challenges; distant, or even abusive parents, money used as a substitute for love, undiagnosed mental health issues etc., but by and large they were entitled, snobby and bourgeois.
The parents struggle to give their children what they need, through their own experienced failings, apathy and ineptitude by virtue of thinking themselves so above the whole parenting thing. The children are subsequently poorly behaved and entitled in their own right. And yet they have every virtue in life: money, education, time at home, time in rich houses, rich friends and eventually good jobs, paying good money that they don't seem to have to work too hard for (or a husband who works).
The real triumph of this novel is that this upper middle set won me over. They became unexpectedly charming and sympathetic to me, and in the end I really enjoyed the arc of the story too!
At the start, the main characters were just not for me. Yes, faced with their own challenges; distant, or even abusive parents, money used as a substitute for love, undiagnosed mental health issues etc., but by and large they were entitled, snobby and bourgeois.
The parents struggle to give their children what they need, through their own experienced failings, apathy and ineptitude by virtue of thinking themselves so above the whole parenting thing. The children are subsequently poorly behaved and entitled in their own right. And yet they have every virtue in life: money, education, time at home, time in rich houses, rich friends and eventually good jobs, paying good money that they don't seem to have to work too hard for (or a husband who works).
The real triumph of this novel is that this upper middle set won me over. They became unexpectedly charming and sympathetic to me, and in the end I really enjoyed the arc of the story too!
fast-paced
reflective
sad
slow-paced