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mandkips's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Drug abuse, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Transphobia
bookbunnie's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Don’t read this book if themes of grief are uninteresting to you, or you don’t like talking bears.
This is a quick read that made me cry and laugh in turns. I love the tempered optimism of an attainable utopia that still promises personal growth, of a benevolent creature that may know what’s technically best for us but might not always get it right. If speculative fiction is your thing, I would highly suggest this.
Graphic: Alcoholism and Grief
Moderate: Cultural appropriation
Minor: Gun violence, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts
talasterism's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
not much of a review per se, but this book was delightful, delightful. funny and smart and easy and breezy. I really loved Trina but mostly here are my favourite quotes:
it was funny - "Trina didnt know what kind of revolution she wanted; she had trouble deciding what to eat for breakfast" and beautful - "I'm still married to her memory" "No love to keep her tethered to a form or place" "Deeba was full of life, and Trina was courting death" "The image of light reflected over water. A profound, life-aletering kiss" but also deep - "Eistance is memory" "and forever was a long time, especially now that death was an opt-in procedure."
"They could cycle through together endlessly, learning how to love each other in different permutations of being, in something bigger and grander and stranger than pure romance. Love as a verb, an action, an adventure in knowing. But Trina just couldn’t hack it. She was old-fashioned that way. Simultaneously, this broke both of their hearts."
"She wanted to learn how to speak again, perhaps in another language, in a land far away from the wounds of her past. " "These were the things The Seep gave us, and what it took away. "
Graphic: Drug abuse and Alcohol
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Transphobia
yavin_iv's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Death, Drug use, Grief, and Colonisation
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Cultural appropriation
Minor: Transphobia
aimeecdo's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Drug use, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Abandonment
dododenise's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
It was mainly about grief, but also toxic positivity, the flaws in absolute kindness.
The concept of the Seep was so interesting. I love a good dystopia/utopia, and this certainly intrigued me.
Nonetheless, I seemed to float above the story, barely ever really entering it. I think that was due to it’s odd pace. It made the book unique, but also a very different experience which I’m not sure how to judge.
Unfortunately I didn’t like the main character all that much. It wasn’t like I couldn’t sympathise with her, but I didn’t just float over the plot, but I also floated over her. I had a hard time entering her mind.
The last quarter of the story properly confused me. I think I kind of understood what was happening and somehow it made it all so much better. It was weird and abstract, and I loved that.
It was weird but I strangely liked it. And if anything, the main concept was really cool, which is the most important part in dystopia for me.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug use, Grief, and Alcohol
Moderate: Racism and Suicidal thoughts
afriske's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol
mar's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief
Moderate: Drug use and Racism
bentherrien's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Cultural appropriation, and Alcohol
lycheejelly's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Grief, Abandonment, and Alcohol