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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail
Brilliant story. Unusual yet very appealing. On the dark side so if books without clear happy ending and complex and disturbing stories this is not the book for you.
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A rollercoaster of a story
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse
challenging
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Powerful and linguistically virtuosic, but way too unpleasant and horrifying and frankly disgusting to truly love.
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
sad
slow-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book put me through severe emotional turmoil. I had to take many breaks while reading because of the distress. However, it sure is a powerful and unique piece of literature. I do resent that I feel the author wanted me to sympathize with an abuser and an enabler, and the ending for me was not the closure I had hoped for.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
Beautiful prose and a poignant glimpse into Maori / pakeha relations and the prisons of gender norms and compulsory heterosexuality. It lost me with the complicity of the two otherwise sympathetic adult characters in horrific physical child abuse. I found Simon by far the most interesting and sympathetic character, but we didn't get enough of the story from his perspective (and never really found out his origins, the central mystery of the story, unless they were explained in a way I didn't understand?)