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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
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:
No
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Vomit, Colonisation
Moderate: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Sexual violence
Had a slow start for me but picked up about a quarter of the way through. Groff’s writing is always lyrical and engaging and this book is no different. The ending is absolutely transcendent
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Beautifully written. Many difficult moments often quite dire and grim.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Rape, Violence, Cannibalism
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
a funny mirror to matrix, didn’t hit quite as hard for me but still love groff’s prose so much
This book was so well written it had me fending off the pretend accusations of imaginary haters that ‘nothing happens’ in the plot. It’s a character study, a survival narrative, an allegory.
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
The reason I’m taking blog space to write about it is that Lauren Groff is an astonishingly good writer, which is how this book gets as many stars as it does. But this story is gruesome, and about how many things can go wrong on the way to a slow death. I kept reading because I was looking for redemption, but SPOILER ALERT, it doesn’t come.
It is a commentary on the pestilence of colonialism, how much women can be abused, and the mistake of mankind thinking dominion means domination. But don’t put yourself through this, even though the author is brilliant, and the descriptions of nature are sometimes luminous. Regardless of that, every hope will be dashed, and right now we don’t need to experience how bad it can get. The Black Plague, rape, starvation in Jamestown, cannibalism, murder– and still an urge to survive and outrun it– which frankly just isn’t enough, no matter how many grubs and baby squirrels you eat.
This popular author can surely write, I but I do not recommend this intense book. Skip it and find something that isn’t so excruciating.
Content Warnings
This review is a caution, not a recommendation. I usually only blog books I rate as 4 or 5 stars; this one is a 3.
The reason I’m taking blog space to write about it is that Lauren Groff is an astonishingly good writer, which is how this book gets as many stars as it does. But this story is gruesome, and about how many things can go wrong on the way to a slow death. I kept reading because I was looking for redemption, but SPOILER ALERT, it doesn’t come.
It is a commentary on the pestilence of colonialism, how much women can be abused, and the mistake of mankind thinking dominion means domination. But don’t put yourself through this, even though the author is brilliant, and the descriptions of nature are sometimes luminous. Regardless of that, every hope will be dashed, and right now we don’t need to experience how bad it can get. The Black Plague, rape, starvation in Jamestown, cannibalism, murder– and still an urge to survive and outrun it– which frankly just isn’t enough, no matter how many grubs and baby squirrels you eat.
This popular author can surely write, I but I do not recommend this intense book. Skip it and find something that isn’t so excruciating.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Hmmmm that was interesting. The writing as ever was beautiful made you love, fear and respect nature. A great study of perseverance and human resilience (couldn’t be me, I’d have laid down and died in the first 50 pages) also the grossness of being alive. Like ick, I cringed so many times so much shitting and pissing cos yeh girls do that too although wish there was less detail in this book. Beautifully, terrifyingly gross.