A review by sskinner155
Weyward by Emilia Hart

challenging emotional mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

This book is well written and has beautiful prose, the generational story telling is great with amazing characters and foreshadowing but I didn’t like some of the choices the author made for these characters.
At sixteen Violet gives herself a medical abortion after she is raped, both the rape and abortion were violent act and the narrative depicts them as such. However violet later regrets her decision for the abortion and somehow doesn’t have any more children. I hate this, while it perfectly fine to have a character regret a decision the made in haste the idea of condemning her to be childless and guilt ridden takes away why she did this, because she was raped. I feel like the narrative was punishing Violet for this choice. In fact during each story someone either consider or has an abortion and it felt as though the narrative was passing judgement on these characters for their choices. And it made it hard to enjoy the story.
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