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balluna's review
reflective
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
4.0
half school read, half leisure
fav chapter: 56
fav chapter: 56
Graphic: Gore, Sexism, Racial slurs, Violence, Racism, Death, Domestic abuse, and Chronic illness
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Grief, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, and Abandonment
Minor: Addiction
chrisljm's review
reflective
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
3.5
“I had the feeling that he worked on a canvas with all the force of his violent personality, oblivious of everything in his effort to get what he saw with the mind’s eye; and then, having finished, not the picture perhaps, for I had an idea that he seldom brought anything to completion, but the passion that fired him, he lost all care for it. He was never satisfied with what he had done: it seemed to him of no consequence compared with the vision that obsessed his mind.”
Graphic: Misogyny
Moderate: Domestic abuse and Terminal illness
Minor: Racial slurs and Death
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