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Małe życie by Hanya Yanagihara

1788 reviews

emotional slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dark emotional 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: Yes

If you want to be absolutely crushed, this is the book for you. I will probably never be able to read it again. 

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dark emotional 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: Complicated

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Giving 5 stars to a book that has made you cry is a strange thing. This book is devastating and I would not openly recommend it to anyone. If you choose to read this book, please read the list of triggers prior to buying to make sure you, yourself are emotionally and mentally in a place that can cope with the events that happen in the novel. 

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dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Heart wrenching tragic and painfully sad, this book is very hard to read at times. However, It is written in a way that makes you invested in the characters relationship to each other and you genuinely feel like they’re palpable people, it never feels forced in that way. It gives beautiful descriptions of everyday interactions and makes you appreciate, and feel for the found family it depicts. The times that made me emotional in this book was the love and care that these people show for each other.

You get submerged into these characters world view, and understand their decision, even when you were in opposition to them. I felt like you could tell who’s  head you were in when the POV changed. I also found the life analogies to stay with me after closing the book.

It contains a lot of horrific and graphic trauma, and I would highly recommend to read trigger warnings before going into this book. I don’t think it romanticizes the trauma and it’s denseness to me, shows the thought that went into this book. It is not a book written for entertainment. I believe it is meant to convey the importance of human connection, through immense trauma, and how they shape us as humans, for better and for worse.

For being such a long book, I never found it to drag, it flowed very easily. The usage of language in this book is what really stood out to me and that is probably what I like the most. There were parts that I didn’t enjoy that are mostly all spoilers, and some of the ways that the book is building, felt a tad too much like trying to inflict as much pain as it could muster, where I would maybe have liked some more character arch instead.

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