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ninjamuse's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Police brutality, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Confinement
Moderate: Medical content, Violence, Gaslighting, and Alcohol
Minor: Homophobia, Rape, and Sexism
spacebornfew's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
However it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore how poorly her female characters are treated. You can't help but feel that they are plot devices purely there to move things along for the leading men. Considering the book explores sexism and gender, at some points in quite a heavy handed manner, it feels incredibly jarring to still not have women exist to have some purpose beyond window dressing.
It's also very dark, at points a lot darker than her other novels which I had not entirely expected.
Graphic: Chronic illness, Cancer, Child death, and Death
Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Torture, Animal cruelty, Genocide, Homophobia, Police brutality, Rape, Terminal illness, Miscarriage, and Physical abuse
Minor: Antisemitism, Panic attacks/disorders, War, and Xenophobia
ginger2d's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Deportation, Terminal illness, and Sexism
Moderate: Violence
Minor: Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Antisemitism, Torture, War, Transphobia, Genocide, and Forced institutionalization
roosereta's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Com sempre, la història d'amor, que és la part central del llibre, brilla. Però per principis he de criticar-la. Elegir liar a un pres polític de l'estalinisme enviat a un gulag a Siberia amb un agent de la KGB... that was a choice, wasn't it?
Al César lo que es del César, i li he de reconèixer a Natasha Pulley que ha aconseguit una cosa pràcticament impossible; que devore un llibre sobre la radiació nuclear i m'interessen un mínim les matèries de física/química (que ja és més del que poden dir els profes del meu institut). Estic gràtament sorpresa perquè el llibre mai em resultà dens ni avorrit, i mig m'ha enganyat per a llegir un thriller, que és un gènere que no em crida molt l'atenció.
Les crítiques que li faig al llibre, i i la raó per la qual li lleve una estrella, és que el final no m'ha paregut que proporcionara una resolució satisfactòria, s'ha llevat a personatges inconvenients de damunt d'una forma massa descuidada. Bé, i que habitualment m'agraden els meus llibres amb menys (presumptes) violacions de la Convenció de Ginebra.
Moderate: Cancer, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Sexual violence, and Terminal illness
btrz7's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Alcohol, Antisemitism, Animal death, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, and Terminal illness
csevet's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Homophobia, Ableism, and Violence
Minor: Rape and Antisemitism