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koniisland'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? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Drug abuse
Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment
reading_moth's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, and Infidelity
Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
a_serpent_with_corners's review against another edition
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
The mixture of love, duty, and resentment that characterises the family relationships was also well-drawn.
The parts about Marion were the biggest mixed bag for me. She gets one of the most blistering exchanges of dialogue in the novel, but the parts dealing with her earlier life from her own perspective didn't quite ring true for me - they seemed a bit sensational. Not so much in the specifics of what happened but more in
It goes very quickly - I finished it in four days, despite them being quite busy. Everything I read about this compared it to The Corrections and most agreed that that was even better, so I will need to seek it out sometime.
Moderate: Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Abortion
lily_kruse'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? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Sexual content, and Grief
Minor: Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Vomit, Abortion, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pregnancy
groovybouvie's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Racism, and Sexual assault
Minor: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and War
lubepizza's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Dysphoria
Moderate: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Racism, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Abortion
Minor: Adult/minor relationship and War
hannakutlu's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting
alimalina's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
It is setup from the very beginning that this much like the Hildebrandslied, these people are only family in name, lacking the actual bonds that would make them recogniseble to one another. Everyone is too much up in their heads, busy fighting the God (their conscience if anything really) to even see people they live with.
The story of a Midwest family that hate each other is such a cliche but the text is aware of itself enough to be interesting. All of the characters are tragic, set up to lose the thing they coveted the most, destined to never escape the fate living in godless land presented them with. Your agency, mind and principles will be lost and forgotten, only the mundane and boringly inevitable to stay.
The writing is solid, the idea is executed brilliantly, the points of view of characters play with and against each other in an engaging way.
I am afraid that the novel still slightly overstays it's welcome.
Two questions have slightly bothered since finishing it: a) was this just a long setup to the trilogy and
Graphic: Drug abuse and Drug use
Moderate: Rape
Minor: Abortion
joensign's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, and Mental illness
Moderate: Fatphobia, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship
popcornreading's review against another edition
2.0
Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexual content, Excrement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria