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thewoodlandbookshelf's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Blood
Minor: Antisemitism
lessice's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
Graphic: Toxic relationship and Blood
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Racism, and Sexual content
mysimas's review against another edition
3.0
Her overall approach to the trolls as a species reminded me of Čapek’s War with the Newts, in which the newts were also discussed with the help of several ‘scientific’ documents as well as other written texts of various forms. While Čapek made all of them up himself, Sinisalo seems to have found actual pre-existing literary texts involving trolls? As I’m not Finnish, I only managed to read The Unknown Soldier and don’t recall if the fleeing mention of trolls had been there originally.
Some parts of the book were a tad ridiculous. Some of them I ascribe to the translation, which was at times a little clunky; for other parts the author is clearly responsible, such as the ending.
Also on a sidenote, Angel really needs to find a better nickname, because towards Dr. Spiderman, Palomita and Pessi, he was anything but. (Especially Palomita. How could he just leave her??) Heck, even the icky Ecke deserved a better treatment. The only guy worse than Angel was the advertisement dude, and that’s such a low bar.
Graphic: Confinement, Toxic relationship, and Trafficking
Minor: Pedophilia
sohva's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- 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
4.25
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, and Trafficking
Minor: Gun violence and Infidelity
breading_books's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Blood
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Excrement and Vomit