A review by merh
Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

A never-ending yellow string of dread.

The

drowning

still haunts me and the way Mary described

Cassandra's necklace as "a strand of pearls given to her by someone impossible whom she had loved"

breaks my heart and never will not.

I was waiting for foreshadowed things to happen, but they never happened. I think it was part of the point. The ending left me unsatisfied, but deeply impacted.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility, Homophobia, Sexual content, Addiction, Child abuse, Infidelity, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Car accident, Child death, Domestic abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, and Terminal illness