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jewelrybonney's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Police brutality, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Colonisation
Minor: Incest, Pedophilia, Eating disorder, and Infidelity
careinthelibrary's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Grief, Physical abuse, Racism, Abandonment, Death, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Torture, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Violence, and War
Moderate: Chronic illness, Medical content, Murder, Police brutality, Bullying, Hate crime, and Racial slurs
Minor: Infidelity and Deportation
hullosweetpea's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Moderate: Infidelity, Gun violence, Torture, Sexual content, and Death
Minor: Drug use, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, and Rape
rieviolet's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
For the most part I liked the writing style and there were some passages/reflections that really stood out to me, but other times I struggled a bit with it (for example, sometimes I found the sentences either too long-wided and confusing or a bit too flat).
Since the narration moves between different timelines, at certain points I got a bit lost and forgot what and how much we as readers already knew about a certain event. Also, I'm not sure that I appreciated the shifts in point of view, I guess that I just liked certain narrators more than others.
All in all, it was a bit of an up and down reading experience for me. I got on better with the beginning and the final sections, but I found harder to get through the middle part of the story and also struggled with the more explict parts because they are really not my cup of tea.
Also, I don't really think that I understood the very final scene of the novel, its meaning or what it stood for went right over my head.
I didn't like the book as much as I'd hoped but I'm sure it'll work better for other readers.
Graphic: Colonisation, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, War, and Torture
Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Grief, Gun violence, and Homophobia
Minor: Ableism, Cancer, Drug use, Infidelity, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, and Vomit