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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
reflective
sad
medium-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
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child abuse
I finished the book a week or so back, and it was very good. The writing was wonderful and I loved the three characters. It was telling that I cared about what happened to them even when their behaviour was loathsome. I also enjoyed the Maori culture interwoven through the story.
challenging
dark
reflective
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
I wish I liked this book more, but I just couldn't get into it. There's some intense child abuse in this book, which makes it hard to read. Be forewarned. The insight into Maori culture was beautiful, though.
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This book...the writing is very good, as others have said; lyrical, engaging, unconventional. But this book has brutal images of child abuse and is apologist about it. For that reason, I found it difficult to read at times. I wish I had known that this was a topic of the book prior to reading it.
LOVED THIS BOOK! I couldn't put it down. I found a couple parts hard to follow but overall I thoroughly enjoyed the story
What a book! I struggled but loved it all at the same time. There were times my heart felt so heavy I didn't want to carry on. There were times my heart felt so light I cried with happiness. An emotional rollercoaster of a book.
I remembered reading this book when I saw it mentioned in the review of another title. I read it over ten years ago so I don't recall the story vividly but I do remember a general feeling of wow, this story was pretty powerful and stuck with me for some time.
I had to go get drunk after reading this. A long, poetic, slightly-heavy-but-not-quite read that broke my heart, one way or another