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anoke'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
4.5
Graphic: Death, Homophobia, and War
Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Child abuse, Child death, and Vomit
allisonz6's review against another edition
2.5
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Homophobia, Suicide, Violence, Murder, and War
Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Death of parent
Minor: Suicide attempt
lynnebetweenthelines's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Suicide, Violence, Police brutality, and War
Moderate: Torture and Islamophobia
rosalind's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Infidelity, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Car accident, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child death, Homophobia, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Colonisation, and Classism
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Genocide, Blood, and Lesbophobia
lauralee_lu's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Moderate: Homophobia, Violence, and Murder
Minor: Suicide
sophiesometimesreads's review against another edition
- 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
4.25
Graphic: Homophobia, Violence, and War
Moderate: Drug use, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Torture, Kidnapping, Car accident, Death of parent, and Murder
Minor: Cancer, Sexual content, and Alcohol
forestfloor's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I found a lot of this book really compelling: the characters, the descriptions of Sri Lanka, the world building of the afterlife. I didn't know anything about Sri Lanka before and it certainly made Sri Lankan '80s politics intriguing.
However, I found the prose quite difficult to follow - I didn't really get into it until about half way through. This is probably in part because it's written in second person, which isn't my personal favourite. I think that the concept of being able to go where your name is spoken was really cool but it resulted in a constant jumping between locations and interactions which was also interspersed with past memories and I found it quite disjointed - it didn't make for easy reading.
Graphic: Gore, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, and War
Moderate: Homophobia, Infidelity, and Racism
Minor: Suicide and Death of parent
chrisiant's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Torture and War
Moderate: Body horror, Homophobia, Suicide, and Violence
sydneyrose18's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Homophobia, Infidelity, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail
bluedijon'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? It's complicated
4.75
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Classism