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196books's review
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Suicide, and Racial slurs
Minor: Pedophilia and Sexual content
tailwhip's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism and Pedophilia
kell_xavi's review against another edition
reflective
sad
slow-paced
3.0
There’s a distance, an observant quietude touched with melancholy, a passive empathy and a passive malice both, to this book. Sometimes, the narrator seems to forget her own self, observing a daughter or a friend or a student before the psyche once again coalesces with the identity. There’s a lightness to many observations, even the stirring, heavy ones. There’s so often an acidic undercurrent to the lives of rich boarding school girls, a normality to their objectification and a seepage of closeness into obsession. I enjoyed Jaeggy’s story a lot.
Content Warnings
Minor: Pedophilia, Racism, and Suicide
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