Review by eleniphant - Violets

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

An aching slowburn, perfectly captures loneliness and fear of attachment. Especially aspects of queer loneliness that hit
For all the girls who felt invisible, shy, overlooked, small- this read very personal to me.
The translation is gorgeously done
Heartbreaking, check the triggers for the end- narratively makes sense but this is a hard hitting little book.

😭😭😭 in this book when looking up the flower The words in the dictionary before violet was violent and violate …
Another definition for Violet:

Also used to describe an oversensitive person, a shy person

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