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orchidlilly's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
I'll be honest, I don't remember a lot of this book, other than it was utterly traumatizing and I loved every word of it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Grief, Cultural appropriation, Death, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Child death, and Colonisation
Moderate: War, Death of parent, Genocide, Murder, and Racism
Minor: Blood, Violence, and Gore
wolfiegrrrl's review
adventurous
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
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
4.5
This story has stuck with me ever since I first read it as a child and, rereading it as an adult, it's easy to see why. There's something so striking about a child protagonist who is left to survive alone on an island that echoes with the whispers of everyone she has lost. Her anger, loneliness, grief, and even her eventual happiness are all so beautifully written. I smiled, I cried, and I held my breath in suspense from beginning to end. For a child who was fascinated by what I could learn from historical fiction, this book fueled my imagination and it still brought me back to that place all these years later.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Abandonment, and Grief
Moderate: Child death, Death, and Death of parent
Minor: Blood, Colonisation, and Violence
mayr3adsab00k's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
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? No
5.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Animal death, Child death, Death, Colonisation, Confinement, and Blood
nxclx's review
adventurous
medium-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? No
Reread of a childhood favorite, I enjoyed it this time around too. I didn't realize before it's based off of a real woman. For a book written in the 1960s, it surprisingly holds up fairly well.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death of parent, and Grief
Minor: Blood
The deaths are not graphically described, but they are discussed and have an effect on the protagonist.
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