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nickoliver's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
The first half of the book drags a lot and is very uneventful and dare I say boring. I found especially the characters, particularly the main character, to be frustrating. She was very shy and easy to push around, so to read about her never standing up for herself was sometimes kind of a pain. However, in the second half, there was a plot twist - it wasn't the most unexpected one, but it did turn the story around a bit and made it more intriguing.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Sexism
Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Incest, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicide, and Violence
More details to the CW: incest: it's between two cousins, and it's not really seen as something scandalous, so it might've been normal back then suicide: a character is implied to have killed themself, but as a reader, you know that's not true Also CW for casual racism (a character does blackface, for example), murder, and drowning and hanging (both of these two only talked about)annietestin's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Ableism, Death, Suicide, Violence, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Infidelity, Cancer, Infertility, and Gun violence
ellanarose's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
Almost every problem the narrator went through could have been easily solved if she had never agreed to what I truly believe is the worst marriage proposal in fiction I've ever seen.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence
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