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dark
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
There are strong passages in this book and situations and thoughts to dwell on. The rawness and the insanity of the situation of carrying and bearing another human being is portrayed in a way that confronts the reader with their own expectations and prejudices.
As much as I was into a lot of the reflections the book presents, it somehow often kept me at a distance and in some parts it even lost me a bit. But this is something Ravn herself is fully aware of and questions in the book if that is going to happen.
So if this was done on purpose, because the author/Anna feels like she is not really a part of this world anymore, after becoming a mother, I can't tell.
Everything is very meta, which I personally enjoyed.
But although I'm a poetry lover, I could have done without the poems, because for me, they didn't add anything to the testimony of the story.
As much as I was into a lot of the reflections the book presents, it somehow often kept me at a distance and in some parts it even lost me a bit. But this is something Ravn herself is fully aware of and questions in the book if that is going to happen.
So if this was done on purpose, because the author/Anna feels like she is not really a part of this world anymore, after becoming a mother, I can't tell.
Everything is very meta, which I personally enjoyed.
But although I'm a poetry lover, I could have done without the poems, because for me, they didn't add anything to the testimony of the story.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Child death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Medical content, and Gaslighting