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booksemmahasread's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Sexism and Classism
Moderate: Bullying and Child abuse
Minor: Violence, Death of parent, and Blood
rikuson1's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Moderate: Grief, Gaslighting, Sexism, Confinement, Physical abuse, and Child abuse
exlibris42's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Blood and Animal death
Moderate: Sexism
caelfind's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Moderate: Sexism, Racism, and Violence
Minor: Injury/Injury detail
micaelamariem's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Alcohol, Blood, Classism, Bullying, Racism, Sexism, Animal death, Body horror, Colonisation, Confinement, and Suicide
town_scar's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
My main struggle was that some of the time transitions were jarring enough that I fell out of the story and got confused as to what was going on. This was largely in the first third of the book.
Nonetheless, it was a riveting story and a fantastic tale. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and it has given me a far deeper appreciation of Mexico and it's many indigenous cultures.
Graphic: Bullying, Misogyny, Murder, Racism, Blood, Child abuse, Colonisation, Sexism, Death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Classism, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, and Suicide
Moderate: Alcohol
Minor: Death of parent and Pregnancy
fruitbatflora's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Suicide, Sexism, Death, Animal death, Emotional abuse, and Violence
bessadams's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Suicide, Violence, Sexism, and Blood
nightmarebees's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
the setting of post-revolutionary mexico was perfect for this story. casiopea’s circumstances as the half-Indigenous “poor relation” of the family serve to examine post-Porfiriato social hierarchy that exists in the background of what is otherwise basically a Mayan fairytale.
don’t get me started on the relationship between casiopea and hun-kamé. i’ll be recovering from this one for weeks. “he’d fallen in love slowly and quietly, and it was a quiet sort of love, full of phrases left unsaid, laced with dreams.” the dynamic reminds me of the last unicorn, of an inextricable connection of love to mortality, how it is the fact that something has an ending that makes it all the more precious.
when i say i cried, it's not an abrupt tragic ripped-your-heart out kind of ending. it’s a quiet and inevitable sadness, a deep ache. it’s holding onto something beautiful that did happen, but it's just over now, and is all the more beautiful for the fact that it could only happen once.
tl;dr this book fucked me up.
Minor: Animal death and Sexism
leahfoko's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Cursing
Moderate: Sexism, Colonisation, and Classism