suspicious_salmon's review against another edition

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dark tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0


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carmentxx's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

considering i chose this book for my dissertation, it would be shocking for me to say i don’t like it. the many layers in this book will never fail to shock me. 

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freyamcmillan's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

honestly this book is so feral i absolutely love it. read it and could not stop thinking about for months now !! feeling utterly destroyed. it’s so raw and insane and a perfect exploration of being a women and mother and the struggles you face. my fav book i’ve ever read

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miamcmillan's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

the most incredible novel i have read in a while. it’s raw and gorgeous and repulsive and insane and world shattering. i feel utterly destroyed. an absolutely astounding exploration of womanhood and motherhood. 

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brotestantethic's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

maddeningly written. disgustingly quotable. you will need to put it down every few pages—your skin will crawl. frequently difficult to follow. dismal.

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silencekun's review against another edition

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challenging dark sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

On one hand, it was a challenging book: it's a story about a woman that's not happy with her life and struggeling with her inner demons. With sometimes very graphic descriptions of violence, sex and mental illnesses. On the other - something kept bringing me back to this book, a kind of sympathy. But in the same time I hated the main heroine attitude so much... And was happy she's getting the affects of her actions in her face.
And so I'll summarize my feeling for this book: a strange mix of sadistic satisfaction from how low a human being can fall but also a deep feeling of pities for the MC.

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