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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
fast-paced
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Incisive, clever, controlled, unabashed, nastily frank. My first Ferrante and she is obviously an excellent writer. Is there anything more terrifying than living your entire life, sacrificing your body, and bearing children for a man who then makes the supremely familiar yet always astounding choice to leave you for a (much) younger woman? And what do you do, you who must continue to cook, to keep the home, to care for the children who now hate you because you were not good enough to keep their father? Only vertigo remains.
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
sad
slow-paced
Olga, on the cusp of middle age, is blindsided by her husband’s request for a separation and subsequent relationship with the much younger woman he left her for. The book charts the unravelling of Olga’s sense of self, purpose as the rage and bewilderment of grief overtake her. Meanwhile, she must still care for her children, the ill-fated family dog, the minutia of domestic life. The narrator lays bare, in propulsive prose, the brutish experiences of motherhood, womanhood and playing in the ruins of midlife in ways that are hard to look away from.
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Maybe I was not in the right headspace, but this book is one of the most anxiety-inducing I've ever read
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail