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The Good People by Hannah Kent

5 reviews

megshrews's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Child death, Physical abuse, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

sarahjpoppy's review against another edition

The Good People is intense, powerful and moving. Once again, Kent carefully describes a time and place that is fraught with danger. Here blame, grief, ignorance and superstition all bind together and hover around the heads and hearts of a wretched community, living in cold, dank and joyless hovels and barely surviving. As I was pulled inexorably towards the inevitable, outcomes, I became increasingly world weary and uncomfortable. Hannah Kent’s writing is as lovely as ever, but is so very evocative that I became quite distressed and finally found myself  unwilling to pick it up again. I hope to return to this brilliant but awful story when I’m feeling more robust.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Medical trauma

woelkchen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, and Murder

beautifulpaxielreads's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Vomit, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Death/murder due to harmful superstitious/folk beliefs, malicious gossip, one scene featuring public urination due to severe stress, one traumatic, graphic birth scene where the baby is stillborn

jmullins21's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This book started extremely slow and was hard to get in to but it picked up towards the middle. It switched between 3 POVs and sometimes that got confusing. Also I had to look up some words and it would have been nice to have a little glossary in the back but I know that is asking a lot. I did enjoy the 2nd half of this book and would recommend it to a strong reader because I did struggle a bit. I would also recommend it to anybody that has an interest in folklore which I do. Also the end of the book kind of made me mad but oh well. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Child death

Minor: Death, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, and Excrement