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ellyrarg 's review for:
The Rabbit Girls
by Anna Ellory
This is a very very heavy book, and I wish there had been trigger warnings (for domestic abuse, miscarriage and rape. Not in a historical sense, but in a modern day setting).
It was a beautifully written book, unraveling the story as it went. It was a very very slow beginning, with everything drawing together in the (fairly predictable) end. It was heartbreaking though, and more graphic than I would have liked (Axel/Miriam, especially).
I feel like it’s one of those books whose stories should be shared, but I regret reading it. I think you have to be in the right mindset, in a nice secure emotional place, else it rings raw. Reading about others grief is hard through the lens of your own.
Also, I felt like it’s so heavy because there is *so* much going on. Also, the atrocities of the concentration camps were out done by the graphic descriptions of Miriam’s narrative, which doesn’t feel right. A lot of it was because Frieda held so much hope, where Miriam did not (can I say again how heavy and graphic this book is?)
Blah. Unless awful misery is your thing, pass on this one.
It was a beautifully written book, unraveling the story as it went. It was a very very slow beginning, with everything drawing together in the (fairly predictable) end. It was heartbreaking though, and more graphic than I would have liked (Axel/Miriam, especially).
I feel like it’s one of those books whose stories should be shared, but I regret reading it. I think you have to be in the right mindset, in a nice secure emotional place, else it rings raw. Reading about others grief is hard through the lens of your own.
Also, I felt like it’s so heavy because there is *so* much going on. Also, the atrocities of the concentration camps were out done by the graphic descriptions of Miriam’s narrative, which doesn’t feel right. A lot of it was because Frieda held so much hope, where Miriam did not (can I say again how heavy and graphic this book is?)
Blah. Unless awful misery is your thing, pass on this one.