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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
emotional
hopeful
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
adventurous
emotional
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
An emotional and heartm,-rending story, that I felt got a bit lost and slow in the middle. And the ending really didn't fit with the rest of the book in my opinion. Despite these quibbles, this was a good read and I enjoyed it.
Do not judge this book by its cover. It's gritty and visceral and really quite fast pace. It's written recently but set in 1600 - so interesting how things changed - Hamnet 1400s, this book 1600s, Middlemarch 1800s, Unsettled Ground 2000s - ive recently read stories of different villages with various strife but all 200 years apart. The medical aspect of the spreading plague and limited treatments and isolation was interesting in this book. As was the covert nature of many relationships. Occupations were a key part - miners, clergy etc.
Lots of intriguing words - loamy, nutmeat, sennight, bushel-skep.
Lots of intriguing words - loamy, nutmeat, sennight, bushel-skep.
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A good book but might not be the best thing to read during COVID. Much of it applies to what we are experiencing today, which was very interesting
As the quote on the cover says, this is a story of "how people copy with catastrophe," and the riveting manner in which it is written made me eat up a book faster than I remember reading a period piece in a while. Brooks is a talent, which you may already know if you've read her other books. The imagery was impressive, including the scene made me amazingly claustrophobic. This book contains a lot more than I thought it would when I started it.
The telling was insipid and moralistic at the same time, with the heavy-handed narrator dropping too many hints on what unimaginable possibilities will be happening next. I read the summary on Wiki and it was an exciting minute read— perhaps all you’d need.