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challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
This is an absolutely beautiful book, and it is an extremely slow read. There are so many complicated emotions, contradicting and informing each other, and all coexisting and appropriate. The way that the book is written, with a lot of focus on prose, set-dressing, and other descriptions, forces you to take your time with it, both to its benefit and detriment. The perspective shifts really add a lot to the book, especially near the end. Personally I feel like too many things were resolved in too short of a timeframe at the end, and these subplots could have been resolved earlier in the book with nothing lost. I really loved this book after I got halfway through it, and it's a bit of a grind to get to thet point.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail