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3.46 AVERAGE
3.46 AVERAGE
La historia toma lugar en diferentes líneas temporales, es muy confusa y los personajes son demasiados que no puede keep up.
Chance le tengo que dar otra oportunidad siguiendo la lectura física.
The first part of the book is ok, as it switches between Iris and Charles's points of view. However, ultimately, Charles is irrelevant and had he not been in the story, we would have had a shorter but, perhaps, better book.
The last part of the book... what a confusing mess. We have multiple points of view, jumping around various points in history - again, most of which we could have been spared.
I'd more or less worked out the twist by the time it occurred, but I liked what the author did with it. I'm still confused over the ending though; I buy the concept of the twist, but then it seemed like it was irrelevant. Surely, it was always like that (in which case, the ending would have arrived sooner) or it was never like that (in which case, we'd have needed a different ending).
All in all, I'm disappointed by this book.
Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Homophobia, Racial slurs, Vomit, War
While I enjoyed my time with the book and found myself in tears at the end, I think the author overuses simile and metaphor to where it becomes an exhausting repetition toward the end.
From what I understand though, this was Ward’s debut. That fact is astonishing, because outside of those minor writerly foibles, this book was quite a triumph.
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Homophobia, Vomit, War
Minor: Xenophobia