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cnannery19's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Moderate: Gaslighting, Gore, Blood, Car accident, Death, Terminal illness, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Violence, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Dementia, Grief, Gun violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, and Drug use
drellejay's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Dementia
ksmo's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
As someone who lives in Switzerland, there are a few things in this book that drove me absolutely nuts.
- They spend the whole book using Euros. That's not the currency of Switzerland. That's like taking Canadian dollars to the US - sure, maybe some places near the border will accept with a bad exchange rate, but you've got the wrong currency! Come on, bare minimum of research when setting a book in another country.
- The book is set in Geneva, i.e. very much in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Yet a lot of interactions are framed as though Switzerland is a random gamble of which language people will speak - Daniel tries a couple of words of French, but gets basic one-word responses in German. I guarantee you that the vast majority of people you try to speak to in Geneva will speak French over German, at a minimum on the level of 'merci' 'de rien/avec plaisir' etc.
- Sarah gets stressed at an event at the institute in Geneva and pushes open a door labelled 'Ausfahrt'. Alas, that means its an exit for cars, and it wouldn't be a person-sized standard door. They literally just Google translated 'exit', but it should be labelled Ausgang. But also, they're in the French-speaking region, so it should say Sortie.
- There are a lot of references to the frozen lake, and driving on mountain passes covered in snow. We're not suicidal - either the snow is cleared from the road or it's closed. I'll let him off on questions of climate change and if it even gets that cold anymore.
- They specifically put in effort to spell out www.sbb.ch, which is indeed the correct website for Swiss trains, and then made up an IC10__, when they could have just stuck with IC1 and been correct.
Graphic: Dementia and Gun violence
Moderate: Emotional abuse and Domestic abuse
horizonous's review against another edition
Moderate: Dementia
Minor: Medical content
perleerose's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Graphic: Dementia, Violence, Gun violence, and Terminal illness
graceyshell's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Dementia