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Frog music: roman by Emma Donoghue

6 reviews

drpthy's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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kimia_hyperfocuser's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark hopeful sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

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lucy0117's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional informative medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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noeandnovels's review against another edition

1.0

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I will try and express my complete and utter frustration with this book in an eloquent manner.

To begin, I really enjoyed Donoghue's book Room so I was excited to read another one of her books. I was thoroughly disappointed.

First of all, the plot premise rested on the relationship between Jenny and Blanche. When Jenny is murdered, Blanche is heartbroken, running fearing for her life. But Blanche and Jenny have only known each other for about a month, and really only spent a handful of days together. I see zero relationship built up between the two of them. Also the queer baiting in this book is absolutely ridiculous.

The amount of explicit, graphic and violent sex scenes that are shown in this book is overwhelming. But when there is finally a supposedly loving sex scene between Jenny and Blanche it is fade to black, and only takes up about a paragraph?? Are you kidding?? And they're supposed to be in love?? Interesting that when the sex scene is queer it isn't shown. Also the fact that what killed Jenny was homophobia by a young boy?? UGH bye.

Additionally the rampant asian hate and xenophobia is absolutely atrocious. I don't care about it being "historically accurate." It was not necessary to the plot (also when is it ever necessary?). Instead it is just there to constantly take a jab at Asian Americans and immigrants. The spelled out pronunciations of racist voice mocking of Asian Americans selling their wares made me want to throw this book against a wall.

Additionally, literally none of these characters were likeable or even redeemable except for maybe Jenny and she only gets maybe a handful of pages throughout the book.

I simply cannot with this book.

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