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xkrille's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
If you like the poetic prose, then this is a book for you. It was not my taste at all.
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Infidelity
Moderate: Racism, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Suicide, Miscarriage, and Excrement
starbuck1210's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
At the end, my take away from this was that we are all warring within ourselves. Within and with the world we find ourselves in. Each of the characters is dealing with internal struggles and external. The book wasn't particularly impactful in my opinion. On to the next one.
Graphic: Racism, Colonisation, and War
Minor: Suicide
booksandbabble's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Racism
cstein's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Grief, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, and Adult/minor relationship
Minor: Excrement
sherbertwells's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
“She was told it would be like desertion. This is not desertion. I will stay here. She was warned of the uncleared mines, lack of water and food. She came upstairs to the burned man, the English patient, and told him she would stay as well” (41-42)
“The last mediaeval war was fought in Italy in 1943 and 1944. Fortress towns on great promontories which had been battled over since the eighth century had the armies of new kings flung carelessly against them. Around the outcrops of rocks were the traffics of stretchers, butchered vineyards, where, if you dug deep beneath the tank ruts, you found bloodaxe and spear” (69)
“He whispers again, dragging the listening heart of the young nurse beside him to wherever his mind is, into that well of memory he kept plunging into during those months before he died” (2)
You know, like The Remains of the Day. Or Wolf Hall.
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Infidelity, and Medical content
Moderate: Abortion, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence
Minor: Sexual content