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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
sad
slow-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
dark
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, War
Moderate: Confinement, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Antisemitism, Lesbophobia
Minor: Sexual violence
emotional
inspiring
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Well written, but lacking in tension
For a book that takes place in London during WWII with bombs falling, one would think there’d be a great deal of tension; sadly, there was little.
For a book that takes place in London during WWII with bombs falling, one would think there’d be a great deal of tension; sadly, there was little.
Set in London during the 1940s, The Night Watch tells the story of mainly 4 people. The story starts in 1947, after the war has ended. We’re introduced to Kay, a somewhat masculine-looking woman, living as if without a purpose. We then get to know Duncan, a young man who works in a factory. He brings his Uncle Horace to the place where Kay lives every week, for his Uncle Horace needs to receive some form of treatment from Mr Leonard, the landlord of the place in which Kay lives in.
Duncan has an elder sister, Viv. She has a secret that she doesn’t tell anyone other than Duncan: she is seeing a married man. Viv works at a place with another woman, Helen, who also has her own secret: she is seeing a woman.
Reading it was like tearing my heart up into a million little pieces, then trying to put them back together again. Everything was described so clearly, so vividly, I swear I could almost look up and see the dark streets, and smell the smoke and dust. Waters could go for pages describing the scenes, but at the same time, these physical descriptions are exactly what lead up to a very emotional explosion.
Duncan has an elder sister, Viv. She has a secret that she doesn’t tell anyone other than Duncan: she is seeing a married man. Viv works at a place with another woman, Helen, who also has her own secret: she is seeing a woman.
Reading it was like tearing my heart up into a million little pieces, then trying to put them back together again. Everything was described so clearly, so vividly, I swear I could almost look up and see the dark streets, and smell the smoke and dust. Waters could go for pages describing the scenes, but at the same time, these physical descriptions are exactly what lead up to a very emotional explosion.
challenging
emotional
inspiring
reflective
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