nabecker13's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Slavery, Colonisation, Rape, Abandonment, War, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Confinement, Dementia, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Racism, Violence, and Police brutality
vigil's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
this book was so weird and bizarre that i have no idea how to give it a review. I cannot in good conscience recommended to someone but I would love for more people to read it, and I say that because it is too weird to pitch to a person.
the writing is beautiful and untraditional, switching between “regular prose,” epistolary, and ethnography (?) formats. the author discusses child labor and abuse, feminism, sex work, disability, how young men are groomed into violence, water, the past, nature, humanity, linguistics, knowledge, etc etc.
if i tried to discuss everything In this book would be here all day. i do think at certain points the book was stuffed full to bursting of these themes, but she did so much of what I enjoyed, in such a way, that i did not mind, though I do think certain people absolutely would.
this book read like a fever dream. It was out of bounds of what is normally considered the “literary standard” (whatever the hell that may be). it is written nonlinearly; it has a plot, but the plot is meant to serve the greater purpose of the narrative and is unconcerned on telling a cut and dry straightforward story.
i don’t think this is anywhere near an adequate review of the book, but it’s the only one I can provide. this is a book that you really just need to read and decide for yourself about.
the writing is beautiful and untraditional, switching between “regular prose,” epistolary, and ethnography (?) formats. the author discusses child labor and abuse, feminism, sex work, disability, how young men are groomed into violence, water, the past, nature, humanity, linguistics, knowledge, etc etc.
if i tried to discuss everything In this book would be here all day. i do think at certain points the book was stuffed full to bursting of these themes, but she did so much of what I enjoyed, in such a way, that i did not mind, though I do think certain people absolutely would.
this book read like a fever dream. It was out of bounds of what is normally considered the “literary standard” (whatever the hell that may be). it is written nonlinearly; it has a plot, but the plot is meant to serve the greater purpose of the narrative and is unconcerned on telling a cut and dry straightforward story.
i don’t think this is anywhere near an adequate review of the book, but it’s the only one I can provide. this is a book that you really just need to read and decide for yourself about.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Xenophobia, Violence, Sexual content, Grief, Death, and Child abuse
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