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emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
I think I would have appreciated this more with the book in my hand, but the audio narration was tender and enjoyable. The narrative traces the lineage of a rural Icelandic community—one family in particular—a hundred years or so, meandering on its way. There is much talk of life and death, music, poetry, philosophy. There is much love and much pain, and, surprisingly, countless penises running around the fjords! Your Absence Is Darkness invites readers to take a melancholy stroll through feeling, possibility, and inheritance.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Death, Infidelity, Car accident, Death of parent
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Homophobia, Rape, Suicide, Vomit, Trafficking, Medical trauma
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
I’m so confused by this book. I really didn’t like it at the beginning, got really into the story about halfway through, then felt like it ended on a kind of meh note.
Alsothere is so much sexual content and descriptions that are just very odd, and most of it I don’t totally understand why it needs to be mentioned over and over. Like I think there’s an artistic element to it, but it just felt unnecessary in some moments.
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, Alcohol
Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death, Vomit, Death of parent
Minor: Cancer, Medical content, Trafficking, Abortion, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Pandemic/Epidemic
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Car accident
Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Infidelity, Suicide, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment