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The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

23 reviews

reading_leaf's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• 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

Absolutely marvelous book extremely well written and beautiful if this is the last review you’re reading that is helping you decide either way on whether or not you should read this you should absolutely read this and then make everyone else in your circle read this. I was expecting something much more grotesque and dark and looming and instead I was left at the end of the book smiling and crying tears of much more mixed feelings than that . Many of them being positive. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Rape, Pregnancy, Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Blood, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Physical abuse, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Gore, Religious bigotry, and Cannibalism

luminareads's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Death, Murder, Sexism, and Body horror

Moderate: Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Suicide, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Addiction, Death, Sexual violence, Rape, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Confinement, and Physical abuse

This book is heavy, very heavy and has some additional warnings not on the lists: Childbirth, starvation, slut shaming, and forced marriage.

brennar16's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Sexism

Moderate: Rape and Homophobia

ehmannky's review

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Overall, this is a really great book! I thought it was a well-written wild ride, with a lot to say about finding community, that revolutions are not made by single acts, but rather by finding and creating community, and what it means to refuse to participate in a cycle of violence. 

The biggest issues I had with this book were that Ryker, the love interest, felt incredibly flat. I truly could not fathom what drew Tierney to him or why he was so irresistible given that he has definitely skinned girls like her alive before. And it's honestly never addressed, which felt weird given that Tierney calls out the other men in her life for being complicit in terrible systems. I get he's also a victim, but there was barely even a throwaway line. Also, the last, like, three paragraphs were nonsense.   

If Tierney dies in childbirth, what was the purpose of her learning how to tell ally from enemy, how to navigate a system by finding community, that she's part of something bigger? It felt like nothing and I truly felt the last few paragraphs just rendered Tierney's revelations so pointless.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexism, Sexual violence, Violence, Death, Sexual harassment, and Misogyny

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Rape

w1ckedn0nsense's review

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Very good book with two minor complaints. One is that each divider has to end with a bold statement or dramatic phrase. This is fine for some chapters but the dividers can come as often as every few paragraphs and it gets comical at times. Other than that minor gripe which is probably only going to bother me, the prose is quite vivid.

secondly, I disliked the direction of the book during her stay with Ryker and I'm still not happy about it, but in the end I believe it redeems itself.  I do not buy the romance, I do not find him hot, I think it undercuts things to have her fall in love with a man. But the birth of her daughter and the ultimate message of the book is strong and her stay with him is short, I would just prefer we spent that time getting to know the girls a bit more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Gore

Moderate: Vomit and Bullying

Minor: Rape and Sexual violence

pyotrkrothotkin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

Minor: Torture and Rape

dancingkouign's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Not my favourite book, but it was entertaining & engaging! Loved the ending, made me sob 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Sexism, and Body horror

Moderate: Vomit, Cannibalism, and Rape

Minor: Homophobia

ashmichelle122's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Would give this book 10 stars if I could. Graphic at times but extremely exciting story. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Grief, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Bullying, Child death, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Violence

nutm3g's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

The Grace Year was a wonderfully entertaining, heartbreaking, gruesome, and yet hopeful read that is reminiscent of The Handmaiden's Tale. Set in a society where sixteen year old girls are sent into the wilderness for a year to release their evil magic tied to their womanhood, we are left questioning what truly is the magic found in pages of this book. Tiernay is introduced as angry at the shackles of her birth, where she seems to hold herself distant from other women. As she uncovers the truth of the Grace Year while struggling to survive the horrors faced in the encampment, she also strives to do whatever she can to save her fellow grace year girls (as well as striving to survive for the sake of her younger sisters). The juxtaposition with how she almost views the girls in the same way men do (evil and like sheep/cattle) and her actions towards ensuring their safety even when her life is on the line does a wonderful job indicating the many different facets of how misogyny affects those it oppresses. The romance felt believable for the circumstances (both enemies to lovers and best friends to lovers), though I was a bit devastated on how a certain situation resulted. All the gruesome acts and morbid situations worked itself into a hopeful and open-ended last scene. There is so much more I want to say (really an essay worth of discussions), but I do not want to ruin the book for anyone. I would definitely recommend this book as it was a beautiful and devastating read while leaving me hopeful for the future of Garner County. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual harassment, Drug use, Sexism, Blood, Medical content, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, Body horror, Bullying, Cannibalism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Infertility, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Torture, and Vomit

Moderate: Kidnapping, Outing, Rape, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

nya_r's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This book was so good! If you’re like me and don’t usually gravitate towards dystopian novels, you would still like this. In my opinion, the last quarter of the book was a bit convoluted, but still enjoyable. I would definitely recommend. Please be sure to look up TW if you need to!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual harassment, Bullying, Death, Sexism, and Blood

Moderate: Child death, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Body shaming, Animal death, Abandonment, Child abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Incest, Infertility, Lesbophobia, Pregnancy, and Rape