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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
„Girl become sunflower. Girl become dove. Girl become raven. Girls, all the many girls fleeing from pursuers, girls who were turned, even in their flight, into trees.“
„Are you sorry to leave this place that has allowed you these years of life?
No, she said, for the blight of the english will come to this remoteness as well. It will spread into this land and infect this land and devour the people who were here first; it will slaughter them, diminish them. The hunger inside the god of my people can only be sated by domination. They will dominate until there is nothing left, then they will eat themselves. I am not of them. I will not be.“
adventurous
challenging
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
dark
hopeful
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I wouldn’t want to regularly read books written in this style, but it was a nice change of pace. Not really horror or thriller. Lots of piss and shit. Didn’t love the ending, but it was appropriate for the story.
This book is so entirely difficult to talk about because it is so many things!
I think it's a crime to claim this book is a novel because it honestly is more like poetry. This is such a lyrical and descriptive view of survival and fear and struggle.
This isn't a book for the squeamish - we're getting vivid descriptions of eating bugs, going to the bathroom in the woods, and the pain and appearance of wounds.
But, there's also so much beauty and reflection. Beauty in nature and the world around us, reflection on empathy, class, and the cruelty of man.
This book was depressing af, it really was, but it was also glorious and eye-opening to how much of the natural world we've forgotten to see and appreciate.
This book is art and I think it's a beautiful piece.
I think it's a crime to claim this book is a novel because it honestly is more like poetry. This is such a lyrical and descriptive view of survival and fear and struggle.
This isn't a book for the squeamish - we're getting vivid descriptions of eating bugs, going to the bathroom in the woods, and the pain and appearance of wounds.
But, there's also so much beauty and reflection. Beauty in nature and the world around us, reflection on empathy, class, and the cruelty of man.
This book was depressing af, it really was, but it was also glorious and eye-opening to how much of the natural world we've forgotten to see and appreciate.
This book is art and I think it's a beautiful piece.
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I don’t know how I finished this book. It was so bad. There’s no interactions between people. The main character doesn’t even have a name and she just wanders around and you read about it. The amount of times it talked about her piss and shit is ridiculous. Don’t pick it up. Save yourself the time.
dark
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This book was beautifully written and the story was compelling. I didn’t read the blurb well so was a little confused about when and where we were, but once I figured it out, I was hooked. It felt almost like a grown up Dear America book.
Though the author writes with a prose-like quality, the story was never convoluted, and she did a great job of clarifying things for the reader and answering questions as they arose. There was very little plot, but we had just enough to keep us interested.
I also liked that she used the descriptions of nature to move the story along rather than pausing in time to describe the setting. I loved the messaging at the end and appreciate the author’s candor.
Though the author writes with a prose-like quality, the story was never convoluted, and she did a great job of clarifying things for the reader and answering questions as they arose. There was very little plot, but we had just enough to keep us interested.
I also liked that she used the descriptions of nature to move the story along rather than pausing in time to describe the setting. I loved the messaging at the end and appreciate the author’s candor.
challenging
dark
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot