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becksusername's review
dark
hopeful
inspiring
tense
medium-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? No
4.0
Moderate: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment
fiveredhens's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
- definitely a product of second-wave white feminism which really imo... detracted from it... like more than once she says something like "women in this world are treated in the way that was once reserved for racial differences" and there was just no... questioning of that, at all
- not really a book about linguistics so much as it is a book about people who speak multiple languages but that's just the purist in me whining
- where it involved Linguistics, it leaned into weak sapir-whorf, which i just don't like
- also rlly promoted the idea of the long-suffering but hard-working woman who simply cannot go on but does anyway? i wasn't sure if that was the perception of the author or the narrator though
- would've liked a glimpse into how the world would have treated disability, gayness, transness, neurodivergence, etc but every woman in the novel was almost interchangeable with one another except in the degree of their linguistic and how irritating they were to men. they were all otherwise ""normal""
- sometimes it went heavy on exposition
- like most misogynistic dystopias it was pretty distressing to read, but in this one the distress came from the psychological abuse rather than the sexual abuse. i don't want to say it was a welcome change but it was approached well, imo. distressingly accurate. not something you should approach unless you're feeling up to it
- in general the whole premise was really cool and geared to my interests though
Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Kidnapping
Minor: Addiction, Cursing, Infertility, Blood, Excrement, Dementia, and Alcohol
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