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moscat's review against another edition
challenging
inspiring
medium-paced
I'm glad I read this, even if I'm not really sure how to rate it! It's definitely powerful, and challenging, and I feel like I'll need time for it to fully percolate.
It tells how easily and quickly ideals of liberty decay into oppression. How movement, diversity and change are how we make progress and isolation and exclusion lead to stagnation and extinction.
It's explored through a cast of marginalised folks from a number of timelines connected by a time-travelling girl from a bleak future and we piece together how these stories intersect through a non-linear narrative.
I wasn't always sure where I was or where we were going, but the moments that connected with me felt powerful.
It tells how easily and quickly ideals of liberty decay into oppression. How movement, diversity and change are how we make progress and isolation and exclusion lead to stagnation and extinction.
It's explored through a cast of marginalised folks from a number of timelines connected by a time-travelling girl from a bleak future and we piece together how these stories intersect through a non-linear narrative.
I wasn't always sure where I was or where we were going, but the moments that connected with me felt powerful.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Ableism, Homophobia, Racism, and Transphobia
blueteacup's review against another edition
adventurous
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.0
Thrust is a highly surreal, highly conceptual book that doesn’t shy away from graphic sexuality. While I enjoyed this book for its interesting premise, characters and setting, I did have some problems with certain plot threads falling flat and unneeded details that led to me feeling a bit uncomfortable.
I loved Laisve as a character and protagonist. Though she was sometimes difficult to understand (on purpose), I enjoyed exploring her quirks (such as listing things incessantly) and mature insight into other people’s lives. She’s a kind girl who’s circumstances and powers make her into an odd duck. I also really enjoyed the futuristic setting of The Brooks. A city half underwater and plagued by raids on immigrants seems like a logical conclusion to the climate crisis and attacks on immigrants present in modern day America. Emphasizing the struggles of the country in modern day through both past and future settings made for interesting commentary on how history repeats itself.
My problems with the book lie mostly in plot threads that seem to go nowhere or wrap up unsatisfyingly, and the uncomfortable incestuous relationship between Aurora and Frederich. I felt that the story line with Lily felt very unsatisfying to me, and, while I understand this book is in part about sex, I don’t think having her have a very fulfilling sexual experience really had anything to do with her problems relating to her father and brother. I got what she was going for with the coffin scene, but it just didn’t do it for me. I also found the relationship between Frederich and his cousin Aurora to be deeply uncomfortable. I understand that it takes place in a different time period when having sex with your cousin was a more normal thing to do, but the sex scenes between them were described so graphically and almost voyeuristically that it surpassed all that Yuknavitch was trying to say about sexual deviancy, and just made me deeply uncomfortable.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content and Xenophobia
Minor: Racism
imds'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: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Abandonment, Colonisation, and War