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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
librissima's review against another edition
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
2.0
Graphic: Misogyny
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Suicide, and Racial slurs
a_here's review against another edition
3.0
"I looked at the man before me in his shabby clothes, with his great nose and shining eyes, his red beard and untidy hair; and I had a strange sensation that it was only an envelope, and I was in the presence of a disembodied spirit."
Chapter 41, p 143
Chapter 41, p 143
Moderate: Misogyny, Racial slurs, and Racism
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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