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sayevet's review against another edition
5.0
"If we could have done more, if there was a way to protect babies from coughs and rashes, from hunger and injury, from mistakes and delusion, we would have done it. I decided to write a song about that someday soon, a serious song... Something to reflect the aches of a soul that had lived a day too long and knew failure, the worst kind of failure, the kind you couldn't prevent, a song that would make people cry when they heard it, that would make me cry when I sang it, about the grief that remained green in every season, and that I had to sing about because it hurt more to keep quiet."
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual violence
anastasiaf's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
informative
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
4.25
Unlike others (mostly on Goodreads) who didn’t like the book, I actually liked the fact that we got glimpses/novellas of different times - it meant we understood the people a little better as we understood where they came from.
I had recently read The Ruins and Eden so I wasn’t looking for a plant horror book, which is good because this isn’t one. (And seems to be another reason people didn’t like it)
Also, some people seemed to be bored by the plant science - I actually loved it and I think having read it as an audiobook really helped.
I had recently read The Ruins and Eden so I wasn’t looking for a plant horror book, which is good because this isn’t one. (And seems to be another reason people didn’t like it)
Also, some people seemed to be bored by the plant science - I actually loved it and I think having read it as an audiobook really helped.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Violence, and War
Moderate: Rape and Sexual violence
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