Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

3 reviews

joanna_banana's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense 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? Yes

3.75

Jesmyn Ward books have been on my list awhile and so I decided to go back to the first one in the Bois Sauvage collection. This is not long, but it’s heavy. The struggle of Esch to get people to see her, the grief of the dad, the loneliness of Junior, the pressure on Russell, the intensity of Skeet with China and puppies, uff. A lot of grief all around really. I can’t say I enjoyed the book; however, it’s well written and the characters are beautiful people, trying to keep things together literally and figuratively. The ending surprised me, it was a little abrupt, but then there was no more to say perhaps. Thought provoking for sure.

I feel like I picked up on symbolism but also didn’t fully grasp what the author was saying about destructive motherhood between Mama’s dying giving birth to Junior, Esch becoming pregnant, and Katrina ‘herself’ bearing down on them.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Blood, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Car accident

writerkit's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Grief, and Blood

Moderate: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Animal death, Alcohol, Cursing, Animal cruelty, Death, and Alcoholism

Minor: Sexism, Misogyny, Car accident, Medical content, Violence, and Miscarriage

e1oise's review against another edition

emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This book is very graphic and moves very slowly. There is not much development given to any characters except the protagonist. I would recommend this book for people who like intense reads, and want to see what it is like to lives as a very poor family in the south. This book shares many important lessons about families, motherhood, and domestic violence.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Cursing

Moderate: Alcohol and Alcoholism

Minor: Car accident, Xenophobia, and Drug use