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woweewhoa's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Medical content, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Miscarriage, Sexual content, and Car accident
aisclaradm's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt
saintsaens's review against another edition
2.0
The poem is very interesting, the search for the woman who first sang it in memory of the assassination of her own husband and the informations found about her are as well, but 80% of the book is more interested with how Doireann Ni Ghriofa is obsessed with being a mother and focused on her own self and her own life.
While slight parallels can be drawn by her very poetic (at times) writing between her experience and the woman she's fascinated by, more often than not it's a digression about herself, her life as a mother and a housewife, her troubles with understanding her husband and her constant need to feel helpful. The first lines are stricking, the rest of the text is inconsistent in writing style at best. And again, the poem has nothing to do with her own self reflection, which is considerably disappointing considering the themes of the poem (passionate love, thriving against social/political pressures, murder and a woman bent on revenge in her husband's name). In contrast, her life is painfully plain. And the text feels imbalanced as a result.
The stars are for the wild poetic lines that are scattered in the text, the information about Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill, the text of the poem. Considering what she says in the book, I'm really not partial to her own translation of the poem (how much is artistic licence? how much is her status as a woman speaking? how much is her own knowledge and understanding of the working of Gaeilge? impossible to tell).
The book is described as "feminist". It's feminist in that it speaks about a woman. But honestly, nothing in her words and her behaviour shows a sign of understanding on the feminist movement, or maybe its bare minimum.
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy
She is clearly abusive towards her husband, emotionnaly manipulative and very childish in all other aspects of her life. Everything of those behaviours transpire in her writing even if she doesn't own up to it.cereads's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, and Pregnancy
Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt
qqjj's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, and Pregnancy
penofpossibilities's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Grief, and Car accident
Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Murder, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Miscarriage, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt
carabones's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Cancer, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Cancer and Sexual content
laurahedd's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Death, Medical content, and Pregnancy
lou_o_donnell's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Murder
Minor: Cancer, Gun violence, Mental illness, and Religious bigotry
kazkae's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Miscarriage, Medical content, and Medical trauma