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thewoodlandbookshelf's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Animal death, and Sexual content
Moderate: Racism, Colonisation, and Classism
dreamwifu's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, and Sexual content
Moderate: Death of parent and Infidelity
Minor: Sexism, Slavery, and Racism
caribbeangirlreading's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Infidelity, Death of parent, Animal death, and Blood
2treads's review against another edition
- 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? No
4.0
But then Lucy as a character is layered and familiar. Familiar in the way she was raised, the expectations put upon her female body, and her awareness of her ever-changing relationship with her mother. Kincaid gives us a young woman growing up and discovering not only herself but her desires. I love the agency that is given to her explorations and experiences. She is free to uncover what she likes and what gives her pleasure. And it is so empowering to see her grasp what she wants at the very instance she wants it.
Lucy is practical but also naive in some ways, but this world in which she now finds herself affords her more ways in which to grow and mature.
Lucy yearns for home as much as she yearns for a life she chose.
Minor: Pregnancy, Death of parent, Abortion, Slavery, Sexism, and Racism
awaywiththefairies's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Minor: Death of parent
cdpict's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Child abuse
Moderate: Sexual content, Racism, Infidelity, Grief, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, and Pedophilia
There is a part where the main character has a reaction to another character's sexual abuse that I found triggering.amyjjacobs's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Abortion, Alcoholism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship