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adelheid'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: Rape and Sexual assault
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Addiction, Grief, Confinement, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Miscarriage, Gaslighting, Self harm, War, and Police brutality
Minor: Alcohol
lozababe's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
The book is written in both first person narrative from the view of Charlotte or Lotta Rae, and the third person for William Linden. It is set in the early 1900s and seems to be pretty well written and researched for that time. Their lives intertwine after William becomes Lotta’s lawyer when she takes a gentleman to court after she is sexually assaulted. With the era that it is set in, it’s not hard to guess the outcome of the case, but from then on it seems that the lives and fates of Lotta and William are tangled together forever.
Lotta’s life seems to be filled with more and more tragedies while William seems to have a lot of luck in his life and career and although he thinks of Lotta, she doesn’t have much of an impact on his life… until she meets his son, Raff. While William doesn’t approve, Raff and Lotta become closer and closer making William uneasy about Lotta being back in his life.
It was interesting to read this book and I sometimes forgot when it was set. But it was interesting to learn about the suffragette movement as if I was taking part in it, the horrors of World War I and even touching upon the Spanish Flu pandemic. This was a really good historical book, and it showed just how much a woman was made to endure throughout her life. Thank you to Siobhan MacGowan and Pigeonhole for allowing me to read this wonderfully written but extremely sad book.
Graphic: Death, Drug use, Police brutality, Rape, and Sexual assault
bookswithruby's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Rape
Moderate: Sexual violence, War, Suicide, Violence, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Police brutality, and Forced institutionalization
the_prickly_reader's review
5.0
Moderate: Classism, Police brutality, Death, Murder, Addiction, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Misogyny, Physical abuse, and Rape
Minor: Miscarriage, Police brutality, and War