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calamitywindpetal's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Infidelity, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcohol, and Alcoholism
Moderate: Death, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Terminal illness, and Vomit
Minor: Violence
inp9extra's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Depth: 3/5
Plot: 4/5
Writing Style/Voice: 5/5
Romance: 4.5/5
People who might be interested this book:
People who like inspiring personal journey/development stories, people who like diverse characters, people who like music or poetry, people who like stories about difficult family relationships.
Overall Review:
This book is beautiful, both in writing style and musical conveyance. I highly recommend listening to the audiobook, as it is read by the author who sings songs the main characters write as they come up in the plot. Solo was easy read and fast to get through. I ended up falling in love with the unique and relatable characters—each with their own flaws and sense of humor. The narrative is intertwined with soul, culture, and the dialogue is full of texture as we follow a journey of hurt on its way to being healed.
Complaints:
1. I almost wish the book had gone deeper and darker in relation to the side characters and their backstories. It feels sometimes as though the side characters exist for the sake of the main character and that their lives just revolve around him.
2. I’m not a huge fan of the
3. I think the story could have been more blunt and graphic with its descriptions of addiction. The book mainly describes the father’s actions as a result of drug use but not the usage itself. However, especially from the perspective of a son of a drug addict, I think that more intense descriptions would have added more pull and realism than the “rock n’ roll baby!” depictions of the main character’s father.
Graphic: Death of parent and Grief
Moderate: Alcohol, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Violence, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Child death
Minor: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Vomit
greenlivingaudioworm's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Moderate: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Addiction, Drug abuse, Abandonment, Child death, and Grief
Minor: Death of parent
brookey8888's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Child death, and Toxic relationship
peachani's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Death of parent
Moderate: Child death and Grief
Minor: Infidelity