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cas357's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
elon's review against another edition
2.0
Den står helt okej på egna ben (no pun intended), men som uppföljare, ens fristående, till Eldens Gåta håller den inte speciellt bra.
Boken är lite rörig, och flera saker som etablerades i första boken är helt bortglömda, samtidigt som karaktärer stundtals känns väldigt annorlunda.
Boken är lite rörig, och flera saker som etablerades i första boken är helt bortglömda, samtidigt som karaktärer stundtals känns väldigt annorlunda.
shreya_l's review
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
josiekeleb's review
5.0
Die letzten Seiten haben wieder alles aus der Geschichte herausgeholt. Sitze im Zug und musste mein Weinen stark zurückhalten...♥️
bokmalentipsar's review against another edition
5.0
En väldigt bra bok om Sofias storasyster Rosa som blir sjuk i en virussjukdom. Lite jobbig att läsa men en mycket bra bok
aotora's review against another edition
5.0
A second book from the Sofia thrilogy - this one talks about her sister's fight with AIDS.
aotora's review against another edition
1.0
I liked the first book. I didn't like this one at all. It's such a contrast to the first book.
Whilst the first one is realistic and talks about realistic problems people face in Africa this one does it too, but there is way too much magic and weird things happening in this one.
There is also a lot of inconsistences with the first book that really bothered me.
The ages are sometimes muddled up, the personalities of some people are different. Rosa is not in the previous book and now she is suddenly super important character/person. Sophia moved out of the house in the previous book and now she is suddenly living back home. She mentioned that she doesn't know who her youngest brother's father is yet in the previous book she said that it's her step-dad that hated her and the other children Lydia had from the previous marriage.
At the end of the previous book there was this one scene where a girl delivers white sheet and tread asking Sofia to make her a dress but use herself as a model because the size should fit her. That is promptly forgotten and never mentioned again in this book.
I also felt that they were too many storylines in this one - you have Rosa's aids, the women trying to protect the land they owned from some rich smuck that wanted to buy it off and threatened them and the side story with Sofia and Armando, and because the book is so short two of them felt kind of rushed and pushed to the side- the story with women protecting their land felt rushed and solved too fast and the side story with Armando and Sofia felt like a filler.
Overall it's not a bad book, but compared to the first one it just isn't good.
Whilst the first one is realistic and talks about realistic problems people face in Africa this one does it too, but there is way too much magic and weird things happening in this one.
There is also a lot of inconsistences with the first book that really bothered me.
The ages are sometimes muddled up, the personalities of some people are different. Rosa is not in the previous book and now she is suddenly super important character/person. Sophia moved out of the house in the previous book and now she is suddenly living back home. She mentioned that she doesn't know who her youngest brother's father is yet in the previous book she said that it's her step-dad that hated her and the other children Lydia had from the previous marriage.
At the end of the previous book there was this one scene where a girl delivers white sheet and tread asking Sofia to make her a dress but use herself as a model because the size should fit her. That is promptly forgotten and never mentioned again in this book.
I also felt that they were too many storylines in this one - you have Rosa's aids, the women trying to protect the land they owned from some rich smuck that wanted to buy it off and threatened them and the side story with Sofia and Armando, and because the book is so short two of them felt kind of rushed and pushed to the side- the story with women protecting their land felt rushed and solved too fast and the side story with Armando and Sofia felt like a filler.
Overall it's not a bad book, but compared to the first one it just isn't good.
clarareads's review
5.0
This is such a sensitive gem of a book. The futility of the aids epidemic, the grim realities of being poor in a poor country, the horror of a young mother who had more children buried than alive. It’s simply written and a really easy read but haunting. Feels like it should be required reading.
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