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atamano's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Homophobia, Sexism, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Death, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol
Minor: Infidelity, Sexual content, Torture, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment
wogslandwriter's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
The paths of our three main characters: Helen, Aaron, and Esther are interwoven and unique with parallels between them all and a satisfying conclusion for each of them. Despite being fictional, I also learned a lot from the historical surroundings of the book and I look forward to doing more research on the history of the Jewish diaspora in the 17th century.
This book will change your life and you should definitely read it as soon as you can. I rented the audiobook for free from my library and it was fantastic.
Graphic: Genocide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child death, Death, Homophobia, Blood, Colonisation, and Classism
Minor: Chronic illness, Misogyny, Rape, Excrement, Vomit, Car accident, and Pregnancy
The book covers explicit descriptions of torture endured at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition. It also covers the expansion of Jewish people in London in the 1660's, as such there is some explicit antisemitism. There is also explicit descriptions of the house fire that killed Esther's parents. There is minor alcohol drinking by most characters at one point or another.foreverinastory's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Rep: Elderly disabled female MC, American Jewish male PhD student MC, Refugee Jewish female MC, blind rabbi side character, gay jewish male side character, various other Jewish side characters, including Israeli side characters.
CWs: Antisemitism, chronic illness, death, death of parents, homophobia and forced exile of gay side character, forced conversion to Christianity on threat of death, misogyny, public outing of gay character, religious bigotry, sexism, sexual content, murder of side character, terminal illness, violence, xenophobia, ableism, past mentions of torture, pregnancy of side character.
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Outing
Moderate: Ableism, Torture, Murder, and Pregnancy