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starlitpage's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.25
Content Warnings
Moderate: Violence, Death, Blood, and War
Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Xenophobia, and Abandonment
spookfish's review against another edition
adventurous
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.5
Man, this book. I feel I'm going to have this settling in my mind a while. I'm just going to share the lines I underlined in my copy, as I can't think of how to discuss it.
'I wonder if what we feel in our hearts today isn't like these raindrops still falling on us from the soaked leaves above, even though the sky itself long stopped raining. I'm wondering if without our memories, there's nothing for it but for our love to fade and die.'
'Yet are you so certain, good mistress, you wish to be free of this mist? Is it not better some things remain hidden from our minds?'
(...) 'We'll have the bad ones come back too, even if they make us weep or shake with anger. For isn't it the life we've shared?'
'I'll never , never give her up.'
(...) 'You've known a long time now there's no cure to save her. How will you bear it, what now lies in wait for her? Do you long for that day you watch your dearest love twist in agony and with nothing to offer but kind words for her ear?'
'How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly? Or a peace hold for ever built on slaughter (...)? I see how devoutly you wish it, for your old horrors to crumble as dust. Yet they await in the soil as white bones for men to uncover.'
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, War, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, and Genocide
Moderate: Abandonment, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief
Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Confinement, and Religious bigotry
booitsnathalie's review against another edition
challenging
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Abandonment, Death, and Child abuse
Minor: Blood, War, Animal death, Torture, and Kidnapping
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