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Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold by Ellen O'Connell

5 reviews

kim03's review

5.0

This book wasn't perfect but it was close. Lots of trigger warnings.
I have to agree to what I've seen in other reviews, this could've used another round of edits, pov randomly switched from one paragraph to the next, but knowing this when starting the book prepared me and I got used to it real quick. The relationship and the feelings this book made me feel are responsible for the rating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Gun violence, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual content, Violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide

smuttymcbookface's review

challenging funny inspiring tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

This is my second Ellen O'Connell book, and I'll definitely be coming back for more. This was wonderful witty, endearingly sweet, and contained enough of settled down life where these two were just falling in love.

The characters are wonderfully thought out, with nuances and developments that have you rooting for them. I loved the strength of both of these two, and my only frustration was Cord fell into the frustrating "unstoppable, unkillable" casting that often happens to MMCs.

Although I do sometimes find the sentence structure a little awkward in Ellen O'Connell's books, I didn't notice it as much here as I did in "Without Words".

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Cursing, Gun violence, and Classism

Minor: Abortion

mrs_faith_owens's review

dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

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

4.75

This book was a fantastic read. I couldn’t read it fast enough. While it was sadder and more violent than most romance novels I read, it will be one I think about, and reread, for a long time to come. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, Suicide, and Abortion

Minor: Animal cruelty and Miscarriage

Not only is abortion discussed, it is in the context of a woman being forced to have an abortion.

The most harrowing part of the story involves the FMC being kidnapped as her father does not approve of her being married to the MMC. She is pregnant with his child, and her family plans to take her back to Chicago, have the baby cut out of her, and have her placed in a sanitarium until she “comes to her senses” and agrees not to go back to him. They are aided in this by sketchy doctors and a judge who draws up the paperwork under the table to annul her marriage and have her committed.

louise_lion's review

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Anne was a delight to read. I think it will always and forever be pleasurable to read about a women who has been beaten down so hard by life to become a fearsome, gun wielding heroine.  Cord in all his serious, terse, and witty one liners really stole my heart. I’m not sure how I felt about the representation of a mixed race Native American in this story, so if that’s a sensitive subject for you, avoid this book. There’s definitely overt, aggressive, and nausea inducing racism in this book which is to be expected in a novel depicting life in the 1800s in Colorado. Overall, the love story was incredibly heartwarming and the pacing of this book with its everyday sort of story-telling pushed all the right buttons for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Confinement, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Death of parent, and Alcohol

revirag's review

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

This is one of my all-time favourites. It's the author's first book and you can feel it: the pacing isn't perfect, the writing can be dragging at times, the villains are comical in their evil-ness and honestly, Cord's family is just.. Impossible and impossibly annoying. But! Anne and Cord are lovable, strong characters, slowly building a working relationship from a horrible incident, making mistakes and learning along the way. They love each other and their feelings come across clearly from the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, and Vomit