madread8's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Beautiful, touching prose. Sprinkled with humorous lines.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity
Moderate: Terminal illness, Sexual content, and Cancer
ameliaszosz's review against another edition
emotional
funny
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Abandonment, Cancer, Grief, Violence, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Terminal illness
elaboratelyemily's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-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? Yes
4.5
This is my favorite Winterson book to date. I love that the narrator's gender is never given, so it really becomes whatever you decide it is. Masterfully written, it discusses adultery and is a powerful view on romantic relationships.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
balfies's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- 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
4.5
I was assigned this book twice at uni and didn't read it either time. Kicking myself now.
A story of how passion and love consumes the flesh and becomes the flesh, this treaty on fluid and gender is lyrical and deep and sinewy. Gorgeous writing, gripping use of language, timeless psychosexual landscape.
A story of how passion and love consumes the flesh and becomes the flesh, this treaty on fluid and gender is lyrical and deep and sinewy. Gorgeous writing, gripping use of language, timeless psychosexual landscape.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity, Violence, Sexual content, Death, Cancer, and Terminal illness
mayagoo's review against another edition
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Minor: Physical abuse
bunnyreads2's review against another edition
dark
funny
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- 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
The first time I read this book, I found it mindblowingly beautiful and haunting.
Rereading it today for the third time shows me two things :
- some passages are still as mindblowingly beautiful
- the rest can be pretty strange and uncanny, almost too weird for my taste now??? Maybe the end parts helped me cope with some of my own trauma then, idk.
But still much impressed with the genderless narrator fit and the raw sensualism.
Rereading it today for the third time shows me two things :
- some passages are still as mindblowingly beautiful
- the rest can be pretty strange and uncanny, almost too weird for my taste now??? Maybe the end parts helped me cope with some of my own trauma then, idk.
But still much impressed with the genderless narrator fit and the raw sensualism.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Terminal illness
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