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tamagon 's review for:
Girls Burn Brighter
by Shobha Rao
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
There's a little bit of book amidst all the TWs!!
Jokes apart, this is such an amazing book - beautiful, silky, flowery prose, prose that would make my Creative Writing teacher beam with joy, but all of it describing traumatic event, upon traumatic event upon traumatic event..
I'd say this book is more character development than plot, the blurb doesn't even begin to hint at the terrible journey our two protagonists go through..
I loved all the characters, good or bad, the author has done a splendid job fleshing them out, through actions alone - more say than tell - another element my CW teach swears by
The book is a literary masterpiece IMO, and a not a slow read if you're locked in, but I had to turn on some hopeful background music by the middle of the second arc, to temper the sadness a little..
The last two arcs - set in the US - make the book more than work it - the sky is blue, the lights are glowing - and the book starts to shine a little bit with some hopeful humour; but that last line nearly broke me, and had me ugly crying at my library... (what a great book to start off 2025!)
The most unsettling part is the bland, tiresome reality of it all - how it could all easily happen to anyone, wherever they are - and with worse outcomes..
Jokes apart, this is such an amazing book - beautiful, silky, flowery prose, prose that would make my Creative Writing teacher beam with joy, but all of it describing traumatic event, upon traumatic event upon traumatic event..
I'd say this book is more character development than plot, the blurb doesn't even begin to hint at the terrible journey our two protagonists go through..
I loved all the characters, good or bad, the author has done a splendid job fleshing them out, through actions alone - more say than tell - another element my CW teach swears by
The book is a literary masterpiece IMO, and a not a slow read if you're locked in, but I had to turn on some hopeful background music by the middle of the second arc, to temper the sadness a little..
The last two arcs - set in the US - make the book more than work it - the sky is blue, the lights are glowing - and the book starts to shine a little bit with some hopeful humour; but that last line nearly broke me, and had me ugly crying at my library... (what a great book to start off 2025!)
The most unsettling part is the bland, tiresome reality of it all - how it could all easily happen to anyone, wherever they are - and with worse outcomes..