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Кажи на вълците, че съм си у дома by Карол Рифка Брънт, Владимир Венчарски, Carol Rifka Brunt, Владимир Молев, Ина Бъчварова

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vinreads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

Jesus Christ. At first I thought everyone was being dumb when they said the book was a bad representation of AIDS. All I was seeing was period typical Seraphobia, and then I got to the part where one character equated an incestuous relationship with homosexuality. I should've stopped when the FMC started saying she was in love with her uncle, but foolishly, I continued on. Their whole family dynamic was fucked up. And you're telling me that after falling in love with her uncle, she fell in love with his gay widow? His gay widow who stalked her, encouraged her to drive at the age of 14, gave her cigarettes and alcohol, and made many allusions to them being in a relationship together?

Her mother was fucked up, making her brother keep his lover in the basement so she wouldn't have to see him, her sister treated her like she and it was alluded to that she was not only suicidal but sleeping with her drama teacher, and her father was just there.

And in the end, there's an unnecessary death and a monologue about how much she loved (was in love with) her uncle and also her uncles widow.

Go get therapy girl!! In fact, send your whole damn family to therapy!!

I do not understand now this book is so highly accoladed.

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bellascho's review against another edition

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emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

June is a 14 year old girl in New York during the 1980s. Her uncle, famous painter Finn Weiss, has AIDS and in his last days is choosing to paint a portrait of her and her older sister Greta. Every Sunday they drive out to his apartment and sit while he paints them. The family doesn’t receive the painting until Finn has succumbed to his illness and a mysterious man calls to inform them of his passing. When the painting is unveiled June notices buttons have been painted onto her shirt and the clearly inexperienced hand tells her it was not Finn who added them. When heading into the funeral June see an unknown man waiting outside and when questioning who he is, is told he is the man who killed her uncle. June decides she will hate the man, Toby, but first she must get every scrap of Finn that he has. Over the course of the next few months June gets to know Toby and decides to take care of him like her uncle asked her to while he also slowly fades away from AIDS.

I went into this book really expecting to like it. I feel like the AIDS epidemic is often ignored today, many kids are never even taught about this point in history when so many people were dying because of it’s association with a “taboo” topic. Hearing about this illness from the point of view of someone losing a close family member seems like a great way to introduce such a thing to young readers. The execution did not do this. June’s uncle and boyfriend dying of AIDS is secondary

to the fact that she is in love with him.

This addition and ENTIRE FOCUS of the story is completely unnecessary.

In no world would I choose to read a book about a 14-year-old girl learning to accept that she was in love with her now dead uncle and is currently in love with his grieving boyfriend.

AIDS as a topic is an incredibly important one and something the author could have done so much and instead she decided to

write about incestuous love

for a bunch of teenagers to read. In the end Greta, the character the audience is actively supposed to hate for most of the story, has a for more interesting and digestible story than the main character.

I have never thought incest

was a much needed addition to the topics to be explored in YA novels and this book definitely proved my point. Some of the banter throughout the story is really well written and enjoyable to read, but it always loops back to fact that June

has feelings for these grown men, one who is related to her. Overall I am really disappointed in this story, especially because I was really looking forward to reading it and now it feels like I wasted however many hours it took.

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bearbutch's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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

4.0

Incredibly written book with so many layers and meanings to discover within each page. It takes a lot to make me cry at a book these days, but this one did at the end. however I will say that the crush June had on her Uncle Finn and the way it’s handled doesn’t quite sit right with me, and makes me feel conflicted. I do recommend it highly, but be aware of that weird detail.

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taural41's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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saintscf's review against another edition

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I started this based off a recommendation and while I'm sure it's a good book with the way it's written, I couldn't really stomach the incestuous tones it was taking just 30 pages in so.

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king_rune's review against another edition

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I thought I was getting a totally different book - not incest.

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parasolcrafter's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

oh...this book truly is wonderful; its so sad yet so beautiful and full of hope. its a tragedy through and through - of everyone losing finn, of june losing toby - but its full of such love that it doesnt feel as heartbreaking as it could. and the love really is so rich in this book. june loves finn - i do have my issues with that, but i understand why she feels what she feels - and finn and toby loved each other and danni loved her brother and she loves her children and june loves greta and finn loved everyone and love...its everywhere in this book, for both the good and the bad. its the fuel for this book and the characters and it makes this book what it is. and thats why it hurts so much because love only does so much, only goes so far and then when you can no longer love that person it goes - where? you have to keep it inside yourself because the love you have one person is for them; you cant put it on someone else. so you keep it inside and you hold it close the way you held the person you loved close. and like...god. i could wax poetic about this book forever. its just so good. and the title...it hurts because at first to me it meant that june could tell the wolves about finn, she could tell that hes home but by the end of the book is dead, the wolves are dead, and now the wolves can tell finn that june is home. like...god. pain.

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piastri's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

There is something so completely raw about this book that really caught me off guard.

The way June talks about her uncle, and Toby to an extent, made me deeply uncomfortable but i’m willing to be a bit forgiving because i remember being fourteen and having a messy family where i didn’t get to see people for years and that was a weird time. but it’s definitely something that marked the book down for me.

depiction of the aids crisis, however, and the way that it affected the people involved was beautiful in a terrible way. my heart breaks for those who we lost and whose stories have died with them.

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kileyglispie's review against another edition

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3.75

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madanxiety's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-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

4.0

The most impressive aspect of this book in my opinion is the strength of the narration and characterization, particularly in their faithfulness to the character's ages. June had such a present voice; it truly felt like hearing a teenager's thought process, but not just any teenager - a very unique, and lonely girl. The way she rationalized things and her self-consciousness and shame resonated with my own teenage experience.

Even though I really loved the way the novel captured siblinghood, jealousy, loneliness, grief, and adolescence, I do have some problems with it.

For one, June's crush on Finn disturbed me from the beginning. I was hoping it was just a weird detail, but it ended up being pretty central to the plot. I just found that so... bizarre. Sure, I suppose it's in the realm of possibility, especially for such an isolated girl, but it just left a bad taste in my mouth, especially when Toby began relating it to his gayness. It perpetuates this Freudian idea that gay people are "deviants" or perverse in the same way that incestuous people are. I think it's pretty safe to say that being gay is far more common than being in love with your relative, so I thought it was a bit weird (to say the least) that the novel seems to put them on an even playing field.

Honestly, I leave the novel a little disturbed at the fact that it has essentially convinced me that sometimes it's okay 1) to fall in love with your uncle, and 2) for a strange adult and a teenager to meet and drink and smoke together behind the backs of their parents. It's a well-told story, but are these things not troubling?

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