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linda_wolf's review against another edition
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Death, and Death of parent
caribbeangirlreading's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Sexual content
Moderate: Death of parent and Classism
Minor: Colonisation, Death, Sexism, Infertility, and Racism
2treads's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
I always enjoy the levels of self-awareness that Kincaid infuses her main characters with. You don't have to like them. They do not care because they know who they are and how they exist within their community. It is interesting that her characters would be viewed as selfish by some while others would clearly see their actions as being of someone who is choosing themself.
The ways in which the people, place, experiences drew reactions of glee, disgust, and commiseration from.me, made me think of similar stories within my own community and, by extension, my country.
I can see how the unfolding of events and the prose might throw some people off, but this way of relationships stories is so common in my country, where a subject mentioned in a memory or retelling launches the legs of a directly connected story or branches into something new yet similar.
The ways in which the people, place, experiences drew reactions of glee, disgust, and commiseration from.me, made me think of similar stories within my own community and, by extension, my country.
I can see how the unfolding of events and the prose might throw some people off, but this way of relationships stories is so common in my country, where a subject mentioned in a memory or retelling launches the legs of a directly connected story or branches into something new yet similar.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Abortion, Death of parent, Child death, and Infidelity
Minor: Infertility
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