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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
dark
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Grief
Points for lovecraftian cosmic horror. Points lost for excessive dog violence.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death
dark
emotional
sad
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
raw grief paired with Mexican horror. your heart will break for the protagonist over and over again. “The maddening part of the last few months wasn’t that you were dead, but that you hadn’t been obliterated from the world. I could still sense you. The days were watermarked with your face. Your absence felt less like nonexistence and more like we were both in the same house but in separate rooms, cut off by the flimsiest door.”
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was a very dark and unsettling book but above all, it was a book about grief. Thiago's grief was a painfully living thing and he carried it with him from the first page of this book till the end.
I thought it was a well-written book, and appreciated the romantically tragic portrayal of grief and the sense of loneliness that comes from not being "enough" in your own identity to be accepted in community, but ultimately I found it much more sad than scary, which was a bit of a letdown because I had heard good things about the level of creepiness.
This book started out like a wild fire. I was picking it back up every chance I got. It was so engaging and then just went completely off the rails within the last 15%. I still don’t know wth I even read in that last bit.
dark
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
This book definitely took me on a ride. Captivating and eerie imagery, well thought out and executed themes of grief. Time ceased being linear reading this and became fluid all things happening at once. Was it possession? A demon? Some sort of cosmic entity? Was it all just a metaphor? Maybe I’ll never know but I honestly don’t mind, the journey was enough.