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Jumalat juhlivat öisin by Donna Tartt

283 reviews

danicakvcs's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Cursing, Homophobia, Incest, Racism, and Antisemitism

Minor: Domestic abuse and Self harm

johat03_'s review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• 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

5.0

     Though it is considered a "dark academia" book by social media, I feel you'll get more out of the book going into it without that expectation. 
     Tartt's writing style is amazing and paired with the medium pacing, you feel continually engrossed by the story. It always feels like something is going on in the plot. The characters in the greek class are enigmatic, complex, and (some are) not always the most likable. Richard's (unreliable) narration gives you a partially romanticized view of the events and characters which makes the thought process when reading even more interesting.
       I would highly recommend picking up this book if you're considering it, as it was truly a phenomenal read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Suicide, and Alcohol

Minor: Incest

luciiee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcohol

kayabennett's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• 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

5.0

bunny corcoran is a fucking menace

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Incest, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Vomit, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and War

dovewrites's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

The aesthetic of this book will be my entire personality for at least 6 months. The writing is superb and so delicious there is no other adjective. Completely addictive. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Sexual violence, Suicide, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism

There is a line from richard’s POV that caught me off guard near the end of the book and I think it could be triggering to people sensitive to SA

it’s a scene where he’s talking to camilla and mentions a brief ‘urge’ to rape her

excepto's review against another edition

challenging dark inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

It is nice to read a novel for a change. 
It is fascinating to read that and it raises the weird urge of suddenly wanting to study classics, go round a bunch of charity shops, changing the entirety of your wardrobe, and picking up a bunch of old philosophy books and also homer. This is especially enticing when in the first half of the book. At the same time you know how the story is going to end from the very beginning, in a bold move Tart decides to lay out her ending on the very first page.
It is interesting to look at the depiction of a 80s(?) American college campus and seeing the various groups and subcultures that function there. By Richard's classification I'm afraid I'm firmly placed in the hippy camp, hacky-sacking on the grass bare-foot.
At the same time the elitism of the protagonists is quite startling, just taking out cash out of their pockets on a whim. We get an interesting view of that from Richard's side who is not from money, but yet somehow manages to get on with their crowd. At places we have Henry voicing quite 'worrying' statements about how only the greats should have a say about the world, I'm not entirely sure what the book is trying to make me think of that as even Richard himself does not react to this very strongly.
I also notice how easily lying comes to Richard and it just seems odd to me, but maybe I just give a lot of consideration to truth.
The ending is quite heavy and depressing, I somehow hoped for something better, but should have known what was coming.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug use, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Incest, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Classism

Minor: Domestic abuse, Medical content, and Religious bigotry

nenya's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book was truly interesting - I know that this is generally a very weak adjective but in this case, it is entirely true. It has a somewhat descriptive but then again very subjective and somewhat sentimental first-person narrative which took some time to get used to. But once I did, it was inevitable to fall into such a deep reading flow (I sometimes felt like the book was luring me in) that even the „boring“ scenes make you not want to stop reading. The characters in this book were so incredibly real and deeply (veryyy deeply) flawed which made the reading experience very intense and mysterious. There were some scenes (Chapter 8, i‘m looking at you) that just totally knocked me out of my socks, there is no better way to describe it. Due to the limited knowledge of the narrator and protagonist himself, plot twists are nearly impossible to predict here (unless of course they were being foreshadowed intentionally) which I loved.
However, it is very important here to check the trigger warnings because there is A LOT going on - stuff that is obvious very soon and other things that take a lot of time to become truly clear.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Blood, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

freddysreads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, and Sexual harassment

this book started so slow & finally paced up after like 400 pages. All very pretentious, characters very unlovable, involves many slurs & is sadly not directly critiquing the bourgeoisie as i would have liked it to do. rich kids basically fuck up & have money & do drugs & drink and read books. wow. not really groundbreaking.

linalina's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Minor: Body horror, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, and Classism

laurajordensharris's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism