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gothicbirdhouse's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
fast-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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death and Self harm
Moderate: Cancer, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Alcoholism
eliodelio's review
challenging
emotional
medium-paced
3.75
i think i went into this book expecting it to be a hopeful, inspiring memoir about someone with a difficult childhood finding her way to language and translation and travelling (three things i care about a lot) but its more of a semi-fictional account mostly only focused on her childhood up to the age of 15. it was well written and a touching story but in the end i felt like i would have wanted to read more about what happened afterwards. i was left feeling more melancholy than hopeful.
also, throughout the book she disperses photographs along with a letter to her sister, spread out a couple sentences at a time, and it kind of bothered me because i was so focused on the main narrative that every time one of those fragments came up i couldnt remember what the previous one had been and it was just annoying to get pulled out of the story to try to figure out what she was talking about in the letter.
also, throughout the book she disperses photographs along with a letter to her sister, spread out a couple sentences at a time, and it kind of bothered me because i was so focused on the main narrative that every time one of those fragments came up i couldnt remember what the previous one had been and it was just annoying to get pulled out of the story to try to figure out what she was talking about in the letter.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide, Cancer, Suicide attempt, and Self harm
Moderate: Rape
rochelles_reading_journal's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Chronic illness, Grief, Cancer, Medical trauma, and Self harm
geraldinerowe's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Homesick starts off with the narrator as a small child, and the language very much reflects the way a child understands the world and orders their thoughts. This gradually changes as the character gets older. The book is very moving in parts as the narrator has a younger sister with severe health problems and goes through troubles of her own. However the book leaves odd gaps in the narrative, especially towards the end, which left me feeling somewhat dissatisfied.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide
Moderate: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Alcohol, Cancer, and Drug use
kirstym25's review against another edition
reflective
sad
medium-paced
2.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Self harm, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, and Cancer
Moderate: Drug abuse
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