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3.55 AVERAGE
3.55 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This book should come with a trigger warning, but it's beautifully written and deeply sad.
did not finish due to graphic content
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual assault
I am this close to giving this book 5 stars. It took me awhile to get used to the writing -- I was not always sure exactly what was going on. But eventually I realized that if I let it wash over me, I got more than trying figure out everything sentence. Hassman has turned a well-used scenario (girl breaks out of her family's cycle of poverty and abuse) into something different. I loved the setting, the writing, the characters.
challenging
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book was such an interesting read. At times I had to put it down to take a breath, but the very short (sometimes half a page long) chapters made me zoom through parts of it.
This being said, the writing style is very successful and intriguing for any reader, but at the same time the plot holes and void one is left with at different parts of the story are strange. The characters come and go, and are sometimes very bland in the fact that they don't show as much emotion or depth to them as one would think, but maybe this is due to how it was written.
All in all, I definitely want to read more of what Tupelo Hassman has to offer after reading this Girlchild, but at the same time I don't want to be left as empty handed as I felt at different points in this novel.
This being said, the writing style is very successful and intriguing for any reader, but at the same time the plot holes and void one is left with at different parts of the story are strange. The characters come and go, and are sometimes very bland in the fact that they don't show as much emotion or depth to them as one would think, but maybe this is due to how it was written.
All in all, I definitely want to read more of what Tupelo Hassman has to offer after reading this Girlchild, but at the same time I don't want to be left as empty handed as I felt at different points in this novel.
I love short chapters and this book is all short chapters: 1-5 pages. I liked the Girl Scout handbook as Rory's guide through her super cruddy life, perhaps because my own girl was a GS. But, I never connected with any of the characters. I had a stronger connection to their home than the people and while the author wrote the setting as a major character in the story, the people were all underdeveloped.
read gods ... first
got better and better - there's poetry in this prose
got better and better - there's poetry in this prose