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stxrceez's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
literally life changing
bangerz's review against another edition
2.0
contain spoilers: While this book is well written and true to Kent’s beautiful writing style. it is so incredibly sad and bitterly disappointing to read a queer story like this written by a queer person when it hold a lot of homophobic messages. On the surface this seems like a lovely unrequited love story.
While I’m sure it was not the authors intention, I really wished that this book was different. There are countless narratives of LGBT hardship, we don’t need more.
While I’m sure it was not the authors intention, I really wished that this book was different. There are countless narratives of LGBT hardship, we don’t need more.
jrmarr's review against another edition
5.0
Such a beautiful book. The emotion leaps off the page and I was stunned by the beauty of the language. It’s fills the heart and breaks it at the same time.
thedukeofpuke_'s review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
woolfy_vita's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
informative
mysterious
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
3.75
twentyfirstcenturygal's review against another edition
mysterious
relaxing
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
chloe341's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-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? No
5.0
ellen_is_reading's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
theeuphoriczat's review against another edition
5.0
Thanks to @Pridebookstours and Picador Books UK for making this book available to me!
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Have you ever read a book that you love so much that you just want to run to a mountain top and scream at the top of your lungs about?!!!!!!!!!!!!! Because I seem to have found mine, because this book is so bloody beautifully heart-breaking. It shattered my heart into a million pieces that have been blown away by the wind into the ocean (yes I am currently sobbing).
Okay, without giving much away we follow a group of Old Lutherans as they make their journey from Prussia to Australia. On this deadly journey, we see the community come together and help each other for six months as they make this voyage. The journey is rifled with sickness, death and also hope that they would be able to settle and build a community that can worship God to their heart's content without fear and threats of torture and death.
On this journey is Hanne and Thea who had just started a friendship when they left him. A kiss had imprinted itself on Hanne's mind and she knows that she has found someone whom she genuinely as some affection for and most importantly, someone who accepted her for just who she was. Has they struggle through the tempestuous seas, the spreading disease and the cold arms of death.
This book is split into three parts and it just beautiful how Hannah Kent takes this story apart. In the first part titled The First Day we see Hanne & Thea's journey to self recognition, friendship and love. In the next part The Second Day we see Hanne's grief, her coming to terms with her death and her accepting that life will indeed go on without her and that her staying around Thea might drain the life out of everything around her. Hanne realising that her love for Thea means that she would have to let her go even if it hurts. In the last part, The Third Day, we see Hannah Kent masterfully complete the painting of redemption, worship and love. It was just so beautiful.
The writing is lush, lyrical, and profoundly heart-wrenching. I loved how religion, faith and love covalence.
I mean look at this Thea, in all incarnations, wherever my soul has resided, I have loved you, am loving you, will love you. If the earth one day burns out its charge, you will find me in the ash. If the sea dries, find me in its sand. Fingers forever writing your name in ash, in sand, over and over in a love-patterned wasteland. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Call me an Ambulance because I need a jump start on my heart! When will my turn for this type of mad love come?!!!!!!!!
I know that I am probably the only dirty minded person here but no one can tell me that what happened on page 382 was not a threesome. I am ready to argue the physics of it! I said what I said!
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Have you ever read a book that you love so much that you just want to run to a mountain top and scream at the top of your lungs about?!!!!!!!!!!!!! Because I seem to have found mine, because this book is so bloody beautifully heart-breaking. It shattered my heart into a million pieces that have been blown away by the wind into the ocean (yes I am currently sobbing).
Okay, without giving much away we follow a group of Old Lutherans as they make their journey from Prussia to Australia. On this deadly journey, we see the community come together and help each other for six months as they make this voyage. The journey is rifled with sickness, death and also hope that they would be able to settle and build a community that can worship God to their heart's content without fear and threats of torture and death.
On this journey is Hanne and Thea who had just started a friendship when they left him. A kiss had imprinted itself on Hanne's mind and she knows that she has found someone whom she genuinely as some affection for and most importantly, someone who accepted her for just who she was. Has they struggle through the tempestuous seas, the spreading disease and the cold arms of death.
This book is split into three parts and it just beautiful how Hannah Kent takes this story apart. In the first part titled The First Day we see Hanne & Thea's journey to self recognition, friendship and love. In the next part The Second Day we see Hanne's grief, her coming to terms with her death and her accepting that life will indeed go on without her and that her staying around Thea might drain the life out of everything around her. Hanne realising that her love for Thea means that she would have to let her go even if it hurts. In the last part, The Third Day, we see Hannah Kent masterfully complete the painting of redemption, worship and love. It was just so beautiful.
The writing is lush, lyrical, and profoundly heart-wrenching. I loved how religion, faith and love covalence.
I mean look at this Thea, in all incarnations, wherever my soul has resided, I have loved you, am loving you, will love you. If the earth one day burns out its charge, you will find me in the ash. If the sea dries, find me in its sand. Fingers forever writing your name in ash, in sand, over and over in a love-patterned wasteland. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Call me an Ambulance because I need a jump start on my heart! When will my turn for this type of mad love come?!!!!!!!!
I know that I am probably the only dirty minded person here but no one can tell me that what happened on page 382 was not a threesome. I am ready to argue the physics of it! I said what I said!