Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

2 reviews

lemonflower's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This is a tough one. The story is so good but the racism, misogyny, and romanticism of slavery is so strong. Every praise you’ve heard of this book is true, and every criticism is equally, if not more, true. In the end, I’m giving it a good rating because I rate them based on how engaged I was and emotionally invested, and that was a lot…. But yeah. It’s a tough one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Blood, Abortion, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

magellen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Obviously whitewashing and romanticism of the south is horribly at play in this novel to an extent that even as someone who grew up in the south like good God. Reminds me of my childhood x10 and yet also of right now with our political climate. I'm surprised we haven't had a rework of this with Maga shit frankly bc Jesus are the characters so easily imaginable in modern roles of picking the *just* side that is inherently cruel/wrong. 

I can see why this book blew up in 1936 bc the prose and internalization of Scarlett keep you on the hook to see what else could possibly go wrong. She is THAT bitch the whole book, and it is hilarious on numerous occasions to watch the suffering play out. 

That said. Rhett. My poor boy. 

Anyway if you take this on, take on a nonsympathetic  historical account of the civil war too, and of slavery, to wash Mitchell's propaganda back out of your brain. Godspeed and be prepared for your skin to crawl with the racist bullshit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, and Classism