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emory's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Grief, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Colonisation
Minor: Vomit
A few depictions and mentions of, albeit in dreams and myth, bestiality.okaeak's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Violence
heatherdavies's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug use, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Alcohol
Moderate: Violence, Murder, and Colonisation
foreverinastory's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Rep: Inuit female MC, queer side characters.
CWs: Adult/minor relationship (unwilling minor), blood, child abuse, colonisation, misogyny, pedophilia, physical abuse, pregnancy, racism, racial slurs, rape, sexual assault, sexual content, sexual violence, violence.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Pregnancy, and Colonisation
ktrecs's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation
Moderate: Vomit and Cannibalism
blueiris315's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Blood
Minor: Suicide
eafiu's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Body horror, Misogyny, Racism, and Sexism
ege72's review against another edition
4.0
Firstly... The definion about poets from the beginning??!?! Wow S. So beautiful, yet so painful.
„What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music... And people flock around the poet and say: `Sing again soon`- that is, `may new sufferings turment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful`” - Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or
Now, the book...
the audiobook: a-ma-zing. Highly highly recommend!! Honestly, at some points, I was freaking out by the sounds of the end of each chapter.
Part memoir, part magic-realism and a little bit of mythical, Tanya Tagaq, an Indigenous author, takes us into the life of a Inuit girl.
Her vision is raw and brutal. It speaks of the natural world, mostly the predator-prey in a beautiful way.
Writing style. Oh my Lord, the writing. One of the most compelling ones that I've ever read: switching from poetry to prose, from myth and dreams to reality.
Lost at some points, but the message behind all of them.. stunning, emotional, beautiful.
„Inhale small fears they turn into doubts into words into ideas into anger into hatred into violence.
Exhale large fears and large words they tumble back onto you it’s easy to get buried by our own mirrors.
Inhale small fears and they whisper and travel to your mind observe them and thank them for trying to protect you.
Exhale acknowledgment of the beauty within your instincts and the courage to love small fears.
Inhale hard love suck in the smell and reward reap eat chew swallow devour all the goodness and love that is given to you.
Exhale calmness in acknowledgment of the beauty within the courage it takes to not fear love.”
Tanya manages to fit soo many topics: from being a teenager, from building up friendships to darker sides, like violence, drunkness, sexual assault (trigger warning for all of these!!) but also into mythology, astrology, dreams, animals and their conections with humankind, and even few aspects on shamans and spirits.
„I belong here in this world where nothing exists.”
„Dreams will follow you into the day to force action, to change what caused the anxiety. We never like to listen to ourselves, even when we know we have to. We plod on ignoring what we must be, what we are meant to be. We are taught to fear our instincts. We must hunt down and fall in love with the Fear, therefore defeating our self-doubt every day. This is followed by joy. This is followed by handing over control. This is followed by lightness. This is followed by freedom. This releases the dreams.”
Most importantly, the main character gave us a full perspective on how people see themselves, how they connect with their inner-selves - how they appear into the society.
Oh, and how music appears here..
„Sound is a conduit to a realm we cannot totally comprehend. The power of sound conducts our thoughts into emotions that then manifest in action.
Sound can heal.
Sound can kill.
Sound is malleable. Sound can be a spear or a needle. Sound can create the wound and then stitch it. Sound can cauterize and materialize.”
Read this, please. And after let`s have a deep chat about it.
And if you read it, and you`ve reached the end to this mess (thank youu), what are your thoughts about this one?
Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Drug use, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, and Cannibalism
lorrel's review against another edition
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Grief