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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
dark
sad
tense
medium-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:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
tense
medium-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
dark
emotional
sad
tense
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:
Yes
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
great but so uncomfortable that it was a struggle to read
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-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
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death
"Now I know what an absence of sense is and what happens if you manage to get back to the surface of it. You, you don't know. At most, you glanced down, you got frightened, and you plugged up the hole"
a story that we've all heard from the women in our lives ad infinitum, but one that is no less painful and frustrating for it's commonality. everyone swears that they won't become la poverella, and yet, without fail, so many do, left to toil in mental anguish while their carbon copy husbands move worry-free through life, chasing pleasure and discarding any impediment
i think what set the days of abandonment apart for me was how unnerving the middle section was. olga, our mc, speaks at one point on how she loves "the writers who made you look through every line, to gaze downward and feel the vertigo of the depths, the blackness of inferno," and i think elena ferrante did this exceptionally well with the hardest day of olga's separation
a story that we've all heard from the women in our lives ad infinitum, but one that is no less painful and frustrating for it's commonality. everyone swears that they won't become la poverella, and yet, without fail, so many do, left to toil in mental anguish while their carbon copy husbands move worry-free through life, chasing pleasure and discarding any impediment
i think what set the days of abandonment apart for me was how unnerving the middle section was. olga, our mc, speaks at one point on how she loves "the writers who made you look through every line, to gaze downward and feel the vertigo of the depths, the blackness of inferno," and i think elena ferrante did this exceptionally well with the hardest day of olga's separation