nataliamb's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Car accident, Child death, and Abandonment
Moderate: Cancer and Suicidal thoughts
happyknitter2020's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Best book I have read this year. My Top book for 2022 was Elena Knows by the same author, Claudia Piñeiro. Claudia is definitely one of my favourite authors now & will read everything she writes. She captures thoughts & emotions like nobody else...
'As if I were some electronic device that needed 220 volts to function properly, but they'd plugged me into 110...
Maybe some people simply aren't wired for happiness. Some of us, when we feel joy circling close, fly into a state of panic. And we'll do whatever it takes to avoid it, to push it out of our path before it decends in us...
Because we'd have no idea what to do with that happiness, how to make it fit inside our bodies so that we can continue moving forward.
For some of us, unease, not happiness, is the only habitat in which we can feel we can survive.'
'Maybe that's all happiness is, an instant inhabitated, a random moment in which words are unnecessary because it would take too many of them to describe it'.
Tragic, yet also sublime... nobody else writes like Claudia. You feel so secure in her hands, as she takes you deep into others' thoughts & feelings.
'As if I were some electronic device that needed 220 volts to function properly, but they'd plugged me into 110...
Maybe some people simply aren't wired for happiness. Some of us, when we feel joy circling close, fly into a state of panic. And we'll do whatever it takes to avoid it, to push it out of our path before it decends in us...
Because we'd have no idea what to do with that happiness, how to make it fit inside our bodies so that we can continue moving forward.
For some of us, unease, not happiness, is the only habitat in which we can feel we can survive.'
'Maybe that's all happiness is, an instant inhabitated, a random moment in which words are unnecessary because it would take too many of them to describe it'.
Tragic, yet also sublime... nobody else writes like Claudia. You feel so secure in her hands, as she takes you deep into others' thoughts & feelings.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death and Cancer
coles14_'s review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Car accident, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, and Child death
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