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Spring Torrents by Leonard Schapiro, Ivan Turgenev

4.0

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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❥ ✿ 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒚, 𝒊𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔! 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒉 𝒇𝒍𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎.... ✿✿

torrents of spring by ivan turgenev is a novella inspired by the author's own life events. The novel explores the themes of first love, passion, impulsiveness of youth and regret. Sanin a young man experiences his first love with gemma. Both of them are young and have plans to spend their entire life together but fate has other plans for them.

𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏; 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒍𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕; 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒅𝒆, 𝒘𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒈, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆-𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆-𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒆𝒄𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆.

𝙈𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨:
🔸𝘋𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘳𝘪 𝘚𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯 :he's young and impulsive, he loses his self control and betrays the trust of gemma.
🔸 𝘎𝘦𝘮𝘮𝘢: a young beautiful innocent girl who falls in love with sanin and dreams of living her life with him.
🔸𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘻𝘰𝘷: She's the wife of Sanin's school friend and she eventually seduces sanin and they start an affair.
🔸𝘔𝘳𝘴 𝘙𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪: Gemma's mother who also trusts sanin to do good by her daughter and them.
🔸𝘗𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦: he's a servant of rosseli family and is loyal and supporting. he also trusts and likes sanin a lot
🔸𝘌𝘮𝘪𝘭: Gemma's innocent brother.

๑ 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 

✿⁠ 𝑨 𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒖𝒈𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝒂 𝒘𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒐𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒖𝒑𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒎𝒏; 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔.  

✿⁠ 𝑯𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈... 𝒔𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒚, 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒍𝒚, 𝒘𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚. 𝑯𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒖𝒍𝒈𝒂𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏.  

✿ 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕? 𝑨 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎? 𝒂 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒆? 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒕?  

✿⁠ 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆!