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Ik die nooit een man heb gekend

Jacqueline Harpman

4.24 AVERAGE

pinkpiscean's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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What does it mean to be human, when all aspects of humanity are gone? What does it mean to live, when there is nothing to live for? What does it mean to be a woman when you have never known men? This story revolves around questions without answers and left me feeling empty and heartbroken for the girl without a name - I wish I could read it again for the first time.

arlena_priscilla's review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

iilnii's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Moi qui m'attendais a une dystopie féministe... c'est une réflexion sur l'identité humaine. Très bien écrit.

tessagrays's review against another edition

5.0

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“Perhaps, somewhere, humanity is flourishing under the stars, unaware that a daughter of its blood is ending her days in silence.” 😖 

This was genuinely life changing and managed to make me tear up on multiple occasions… </3 the writing was beautiful and intensely immersive in the eeriest way

kos_aii's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

miksl's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional mysterious reflective 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: Complicated

shaymo814's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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This book was the best literary fiction book I’ve read all year. I genuinely believe this needs to be taught and discussed in the high school curriculum. 

celina_matata's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious reflective sad 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: N/A

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Wow, just wow. Finally took the time to finish the book and was left speechless at the end. A book that made me question what it means to be human. What it means to have lived if you've never experienced so many fundamental things. The beauty and meaning of found community and the pain of losing these connections. The hope after each new discovery that vanishes quickly, till eventually all hope wanes. I really grew attached to our protagonist the child and I was also so hopeful for a different outcome, and to gain insight into the world they're in but there was nothing. Such simple prose but written so beautifully. I'll be thinking about this book for a very long time.

clairel610's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

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despite all signs pointing against it, this books leaves you hoping until the last minute that you might eventually solve the mysteries of this strange world. as the narrator repeatedly states, she exists in an inherently absurd world—one without discernible reason or logic that could possibly explain why things are the way they are. regardless, amidst the profound despairs and loneliness, i, like the narrator, repeatedly felt moments of hope that one day she might find meaning or explanation; her experiences alone are improbable enough to create that hope. there are so many unanswered questions to grapple with here—can you miss what you’ve never known? how do you measure your life when you’re completely alone? what does it mean to be human? this book is devastating but impossible to put down.

jtoothaker's review against another edition

4.0

mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes