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Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

22 reviews

phantompansy's review against another edition

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wish there was less war tbh

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marxxx's review against another edition

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dark reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

3.75

most of this book left me sitting with a weird discomfort—the narrator and his partner are both complicit in a lot of really heinous things, and violence against Black and Indigenous people abounds. but I found it informative, and found the discomfort to be something worth examining, and the end of the book made me cry.

The writing style takes some getting used but it adds something very unique and personal to the book.

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bee1009's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective 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? Yes

4.5

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macaronis_telegraph's review against another edition

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slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.0

Format of the book is frustrating - While Barry does succeed at crafting a distinct voice for his main character, it also for some reason meant that every paragraph was multiple pages long, creating a constant wall of text on every page, allowing for an uninviting read.

Author also fails to address in any light the horrendous parts of the past he writes about. He writes in detail his characters partaking in the repeated slaughter of Native Americans both before and after the civil war, but because the characters partaking in the murder are gay and rescue one little girl, everything is okay right? I think not.

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dagsywagsy43's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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shinysarah28's review against another edition

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challenging emotional sad medium-paced

Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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friends2lovers's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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tysuckz's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

It was definitely challenging to read. I found the style of writing to be hard to read, but it was supposed to be written as though from the main character directly... so the grammatical errors were intentional, but challenging to read through.

I don't find war books to be my type of thing, so it was challenging in that aspect also! However, I did find that some parts of it were interesting, especially the more tense parts ie meeting Caught His Horse First!

I was getting bored half way through because of the writing style and it felt like a chore to read. Though it did pick up towards the end and I loved

that Thomas is actually Thomasina! I picked up the book thinking it was a gay novel when in actual fact it was gay & trans?

there weren't many mentioning in the reviews of this so I'm unsure if people just didn't pick that up or if I just interpreted it wrong? There were a lot of reviews discussing how they thought it was either incredibly improbable that they could've lived so freely as Gay Men in the 1850s (& the opposite... that it wasn't too surprising as back then lots of men shared beds with men). Regardless! Not too many mentionings of Thomas/Thomasina.

The ending was almost incredibly devastating

although I did assume something sad would happen, including John Cole being dead after Thomasina & Winona came back from war, this didn't happen... and it just kept building up !!! I knew it was written from Thomasinas perspective so they had to still be alive... or the alternative was that they had died before finishing it

I did notice this is a series and that there is a book written by Winona, which I have a copy of the first chapter of within this book and it seems to be written in a more pleasant way so maybe I'll pick that up lol.

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lavendl's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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alexhaydon's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.0

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