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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
This book is very well written but utterly devastating. I found myself flinching away from most of the pages in the second half of the book. It gave me nightmares.
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
I loved this, a fictional memoir based on the author’s own experiences with breast cancer. It’s narrated in the second person which usually doesn’t work for me but really did this time. Fragments from the narrator’s present, dealing with the cancer, having prostheses fitted, fighting infection after infection, are interspersed with episodes from their childhood, often also to do with illness but also small moments of comfort. The translation by Celia Hawkseworth was beautiful.
The only thing that didn’t sit right with me was the quite binary thinking of what makes a woman a woman. But it is also based in personal experience.
The only thing that didn’t sit right with me was the quite binary thinking of what makes a woman a woman. But it is also based in personal experience.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Medical content, Medical trauma
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Some parts were harrowing and others a great reminder of the courage it takes to go through cancer treatment. I struggled to read it coming up to the year of losing my friend to cancer but it made me feel close to them.
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
informative
reflective
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:
No