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The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

27 reviews

cjreadstoomuch's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Sexism, Misogyny, Bullying, and Death

Moderate: Violence, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Outing, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual content

keenaireader's review

Too dark and too much sexualizing of barely 16 year old girls by barely 16 year old boys and adult men. Also girls being POACHED on their way to their grace year and their body parts and bodily fluids like blood and earlobes being used as “aphrodisiacs” and “youth serum”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment

Moderate: Gore

katemarie99's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

1.5

This book was pretty much triggering in every way that a book could be... I am being generous and giving it that little .5 extra bc I did feel a little *seen* in the beginning with the intersection-between-religious-conservatism-and-sexism bit. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexism, Gore, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cannibalism, and Homophobia

winnie_is_swag's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.75

i really liked this book. 'twas beautifully written, and it made me emotional. the main character is strong and independent. it's like Lord of the Flies meets a Handmaid's Tale. Highly recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Blood, Animal death, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Excrement, Gore, Death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Violence, and Bullying

Moderate: Pregnancy, Medical content, Vomit, Sexual content, and Infertility

Minor: Sexual content, Rape, Classism, Abandonment, Homophobia, Cursing, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

auri_underthing's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• 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

4.75

To describe this book in three words: 
Horror. Desperate. Clawing.

Woah. That was… intense. A haunting and almost grotesque story about a girl becoming a woman and realising she can be just as powerful as a man. 
Read it in one sitting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting

Moderate: Death, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

parchmentdreams's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Gore, Sexual harassment, Body horror, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Child death, and Death

psnchz's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual harassment, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, and Confinement

neilsonhr's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Suicide

Moderate: Sexual harassment

reading_leaf's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Absolutely marvelous book extremely well written and beautiful if this is the last review you’re reading that is helping you decide either way on whether or not you should read this you should absolutely read this and then make everyone else in your circle read this. I was expecting something much more grotesque and dark and looming and instead I was left at the end of the book smiling and crying tears of much more mixed feelings than that . Many of them being positive. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Rape, Pregnancy, Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Blood, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Physical abuse, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Gore, Religious bigotry, and Cannibalism

kgorobets's review

challenging dark hopeful tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

I think this book had real potential to be a five star read for me, and there are many aspects that I appreciated despite the one flaw that knocked off a star. This one flaw is the pacing. As I read the story, I felt that I was missing time, like we skipped over "boring" parts and jumped from action to action. Seasons flew by very fast, and I wish the book was longer and made me feel the passage of the year, rather than skipping around to action. However, it did add to the overall atmosphere of disorienting madness, so it may be a very intentional choice - it just did not work for me.

Other than the pacing, I really enjoyed the story. I appreciated that it didn't feel cliche - despite very clear inspiration material and parallels to the lord of the flies, hunger games, the crucible - I still could not ever predict what would happen next. I enjoyed the atmosphere of the book the most, I think the author did a very good job setting scenes and painting imagery. Again, if I wasn't disoriented about seasons, it would have been even better.

Overall, a great dark feminist read that has a more nuanced and subtle take on female oppression than many other books I've read. Definitely recommend for the Crucible vibes ✨

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, Death, Animal death, and Bullying

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual content, and Fatphobia