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A review by mcfade28
Hood by Emma Donoghue
4.0
Wow. This book completely blew me away. I bought it after loving Emma Donoghue's Room a few years back, but I kept putting it off thinking it sounded a little dreary/ wouldn't appeal to me. I was completely wrong.
This story follows Pen, who has been in an on again,off again relationship with Cara for 13 years. A few hours before the story begins, Cara dies in a traffic accident. The novel follows the first week of Pen's mourning as she grieves the loss of the love of her life (made especially hard by the fact that she and her lover had been in the closet to their friends and respective families. I wasn't expecting the grief to hit me so hard and I found myself devastated by the end of the first chapter. Luckily the emotional onslaught does reduce as time goes by
This is a 4.5 star book. It only lost half a point as I found it a bit long. Some of the sex scenes were also a bit descriptive for my liking but your mileage may vary on that one.
This story follows Pen, who has been in an on again,off again relationship with Cara for 13 years. A few hours before the story begins, Cara dies in a traffic accident. The novel follows the first week of Pen's mourning as she grieves the loss of the love of her life (made especially hard by the fact that she and her lover had been in the closet to their friends and respective families. I wasn't expecting the grief to hit me so hard and I found myself devastated by the end of the first chapter. Luckily the emotional onslaught does reduce as time goes by
This is a 4.5 star book. It only lost half a point as I found it a bit long. Some of the sex scenes were also a bit descriptive for my liking but your mileage may vary on that one.