A review by lech4617
Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave

challenging emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

Set during world war 2, I find the characters to have very little in the way of goals that they are working at throughout the book. It is realistic in that sense, that they go through life in a similar manner to ourselves, but i find that it does take away from the engagement of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Ableism, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Body horror, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Animal death, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Rape, Animal cruelty, Drug use, Murder, Sexism, Sexual assault, Child death, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide attempt, War, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Vomit, Addiction, and Gun violence