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betag1013's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Outing, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
mirandaleighhhh's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
3.5
That being said…it took me a long time to get through this, and I was surprised at how little we got of Jacinda’s story, and how little we got to know about the future (but hey, maybe that’s the point?).
I think I was a little bored reading so much about the thinkings and doings of rich men. I loved reading about Everrett though, and Temple was fantastic as well.
“though formal research has surely been done, somewhere, scientists are no longer sharing freely sharing their findings since the rise of environmental nationalism and the end of the free internet” horrifying horrifying so close to reality
“perhaps goddess, monster, mother, and guardian forged into one impossible figure”
“wood is time captured. A map. A cellular memory, a record.”
“the world has been on the brink of ending before. the dust has always been waiting to swallow us. people have always struggled and suffered. your poverty is not shameful. It is not a failure of your character. life, by its very nature, is precarious. and your struggles are never for nothing.”
“now every time the wind blows through its blossoms I see you in the shimmer…I do not want you because you are mine. I want you because I am yours”
Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, and Death of parent
robotfanclub's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use
Minor: Alcoholism, Death, and War
mandi_lea's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
hamstringy's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcohol, and Colonisation
Moderate: Sexual assault, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism
auraroraora's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use
Moderate: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy
Minor: Physical abuse and Sexual harassment
careinthelibrary's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
4.0
"Because there’s nothing like poverty to teach you just how much of a luxury integrity truly is."
"What is nature exactly, Willow?...Is one of my reclaimed wood tables Nature? Am I nature?"
"Whenever she tells the story of the cyclone...she will puzzle over how to properly describe the sound it made as it ate through her library. She'll grapple with how one could possibly capture precisely the sound of ten thousand books drawn up into the air and scattered for hundreds of miles. And it won't be until years later--long after the Depression ends and poor people stop riding the rails...and long after she's able to again venture into that section of her field where they planted the windbreak of maples together, trees that have only thrived ever since. And long after the void he left in her life entirely heals over--only then will she arrive at a suitable answer: they sounded like birds."
"So know this: your father loved you with everything he had. He just didn't have much left."
"Time, Liam has learned, is not an arrow. Neither is it a road. It goes in no particular direction. It simply accumulates—in the body, in the world—like wood does. Layer upon layer. Light, then dark. Each one dependent upon the last. Each year impossible without the one preceding it. Each triumph and each disaster written forever in its structure. His own life, he can admit now, will never be clear, will never be unblemished, will never be reclaimed. Because it is impossible to ungrow what has already grown, to undo what is already done. Still, people trust the things he’s built, and there is something to that. It’s not enough, but it’s what he’ll take with him."
"What if a family isn't a tree at all? What if it's more like a forest? A collection of individuals, pooling their resources by intertwined roots, sheltering each other from wind and weather and drought... what are families other than fictions? Stories told about a particular cluster of people for a particular reason. And like all stories, families are not born, they're invented. Pieced together from love and lies and nothing else."
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, and Death of parent
Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Cancer, Gun violence, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Outing, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, and War
Minor: Abortion
Wrongful imprisonmentwildsage's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Drug use
feathery's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Moderate: Ableism, Cursing, Infertility, Infidelity, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Vomit, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Outing
Minor: Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Outing
jazzyinthewild's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Alcohol, and War
Minor: Gun violence, Homophobia, Rape, Suicide, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury