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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
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
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challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Heart-breaking, heart-wrenching, heart-healing, and so so so good to read— although I spent far too long flipping through the back pages of Maori to English translations (frustratingly not in alphabetical order), but that is my only complaint of this book! ❤️
I picked this up at a drinks I was at on Friday and then read it and didn't talk to anyone for the rest of my time there. Probably gave off a terrible first impression. Really enjoyed though.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
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
I've read this book three times and each time I love it more.
Interesting read for all of the Maori culture tied into this book and how it plays out in New Zealand. The writing style is also very unique -- takes some time to get into. Slow reading.
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
What a ride...powerful and painful. Our stand-in Keri Hulme has become one of my favorite literary characters-womanhood and love come in all forms. Let's get cozy in our little nest filled with treasures and magical objects and just lay about, drink, and smoke while the cold mist and sea hug in around us. A home life that is both dreamy, lonely, and at times completely devastating. This novel is controversial for a reason, and the handling of violence and child abuse is dicey and a bit naive...aspects of the story just didn't sit right with me.
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Wonderful to see an aroace (and nonbinary/gnc) main character in a Booker Prize winning book from the 80s! Honestly building a medieval stone tower by the sea to live and draw in with a well stocked booze cellar is goals tbh.
I really enjoyed spending time in the NZ setting with these characters and the ways they clashed and grew together. The book sets up several mysteries at the start that are fun to unravel and come back to at the end, although maybe some moral unease on my end at the enjoyment in unraveling one of those mysteries being 'what exactly was the traumatic abuse that happened to this child'.
The book is very long though and in the second half I was definitely flagging in places where it felt morr indulgent or repetitive. Its a little deus ex machina at the end as well, i wasn't totally convinced things could be fixed that easily, realistically. Although arguably it is about the hope of things being better, this time.
I really enjoyed spending time in the NZ setting with these characters and the ways they clashed and grew together. The book sets up several mysteries at the start that are fun to unravel and come back to at the end, although maybe some moral unease on my end at the enjoyment in unraveling one of those mysteries being '
The book is very long though and in the second half I was definitely flagging in places where it felt morr indulgent or repetitive. Its a little deus ex machina at the end as well, i wasn't totally convinced things could be fixed that easily, realistically. Although arguably it is about the hope of things being better, this time.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Alcohol
Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Acephobia/Arophobia, Colonisation