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erindb's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Moderate: Mental illness, Violence, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Blood, Stalking, Rape, Misogyny, and Injury/Injury detail
basonok's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Rape and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Animal cruelty
It had a very sapphic energy to me in the beginning of the book and with her friend at the flower shop.ajoyr's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Minor: Sexual harassment, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, Sexual assault, and Injury/Injury detail
katialena's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Mental illness, and Sexual violence
Minor: Kidnapping, Rape, Blood, and Self harm
hannah_cogo's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Grief, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Abandonment, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual violence, Violence, Sexual assault, Police brutality, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Death, Sexism, Blood, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Police brutality, Child abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Violence, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, and Rape
biblioghoul's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Abandonment, and Self harm
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Sexual harassment and Animal cruelty
sonalipawar26's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Silence. Shin Kyung-Sook's Violets (translated by @antonhur) is about silent women—both who choose to do so and those who are forced into it.
Violet. Violence. Violator.
This 200-odd-page book brims with melancholy. It's small in size but as mighty as they come.
It is about the friendship b/w an overbearing woman and a timid one. It is about obsession where 22-year-old San becomes infatuated with a womanizing photographer, so much so that she puts her life in danger. Violets is about abandonment, sexual identity, loneliness. But it is also about the ways in which men violate women.
I was momentarily blinded by the prose, just like how the flash of a camera leaves you with little sight, forcing you to find your bearings. I found myself breathing heavily as I turned the last few pages, my heart racing, and eyes wide in utter shock. There was a disconnect b/w San and her surroundings; at certain places it felt like she was undergoing an out-of-body experience, watching herself from afar. It was palpable. It felt I was there with her the entire time, watching her from a distance but unable to help. San wasn't alone in her hallucinations.
The prose, detached and devoid of any emotion, as if the author was simply stating facts, certainly stirred quite a few emotions within. And Anton Hur has done a marvellous job translating the book.
This story is not just San's. San depicts all the women out here and everything that comes from being one--the good, the bad, the ugly. But mostly the ugly.
I am certain, the last few pages are going to stay with me for a long, long time.
Graphic: Suicide attempt and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Abandonment and Mental illness