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A review by jenkinel
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
A single character's life story becomes a kind of a microcosm of the brutality of English colonialism. Features one of the most beautiful and strange extended death sequences (life sequences?) I've ever read.
"For, inches beyond this face of hers, and in the profoundest sufferings of her body, the world went on in its grand, and renewing, and wholly indifferent beauty. And the earth itself uncovered its shining face, and to her now revealed itself in a litany of wonder."
"For, inches beyond this face of hers, and in the profoundest sufferings of her body, the world went on in its grand, and renewing, and wholly indifferent beauty. And the earth itself uncovered its shining face, and to her now revealed itself in a litany of wonder."