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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Absolutely fantastic
Beautiful descriptive language but nooooo plot. Just boring af.
adventurous
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
sad
slow-paced
Strong character development:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A single character's life story becomes a kind of a microcosm of the brutality of English colonialism. Features one of the most beautiful and strange extended death sequences (life sequences?) I've ever read.
"For, inches beyond this face of hers, and in the profoundest sufferings of her body, the world went on in its grand, and renewing, and wholly indifferent beauty. And the earth itself uncovered its shining face, and to her now revealed itself in a litany of wonder."
"For, inches beyond this face of hers, and in the profoundest sufferings of her body, the world went on in its grand, and renewing, and wholly indifferent beauty. And the earth itself uncovered its shining face, and to her now revealed itself in a litany of wonder."
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
I’m conflicted about this novel. I really enjoyed the first half and then it dragged so much. Incredibly repetitive as the girl flees through the wilderness and her body continues to suffer and break down. As for the ending, it would’ve worked better if the book had been novella length. After so many pages one grows hopeful. My description of this books to a friend was imagine a Jack London story of survival set in the early 1700s from the point of view of a religious teenager fleeing a pestilence and starved British fort.
i really wanted to love this; i liked it. it’s prose has the texture of what i’ll refer to now forevermore as “iowa writer’s workshop syndrome” — which is the tendency in modern lit to favor these extended, purple descriptions of things at the expense of telling an actual story. no idea if this author attended, and it isn’t unbearable to read even if it is an iowa product, but it’s certainly a book that thinks a lot more of it’s writing than it does of the experience of someone reading it.
or maybe I just have bad taste! could be.
or maybe I just have bad taste! could be.
adventurous
challenging
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Besides the beautiful writing (and the narrator who made it even more beautiful) this book was not for me.