mik43l4's review
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Toxic relationship
Moderate: Infidelity, Car accident, and Pregnancy
Minor: Suicide, Animal cruelty, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Abortion, Alcoholism, and Animal death
wtb_michael's review
dark
funny
fast-paced
5.0
Stunning. Bleakly funny book about a bad marriage, perfectly crafted moments, stitched together into maybe the best Australian novel of the 1990s
paigicus's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Content Warnings
Moderate: Infidelity and Suicide
Minor: Abortion
meganishere's review against another edition
3.0
Not my favourite, nor a book I would continue to read willingly, but nonetheless a book I will have to study in the coming year. I can’t say I hated it, but it was dry. Perhaps just not what I was expecting or hoping for. Many underlying themes were explored, much of which I feel I will not be able to understand unless I read it many more times
noitsbecky's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
kkayleen's review
4.0
i love these types of books - short little snapshots of bad people. i love the lack of character development traded for straightforward descriptions of fact. nice, easy & sometimes cringy. irene was a terror and i loved her.
meganishere's review
3.0
Not my favourite, nor a book I would continue to read willingly, but nonetheless a book I will have to study in the coming year. I can’t say I hated it, but it was dry. Perhaps just not what I was expecting or hoping for. Many underlying themes were explored, much of which I feel I will not be able to understand unless I read it many more times
booktoilandtrouble's review
4.0
Snake by Kate Jennings is a novel about a dysfunctional married couple and their children who live and work in the Australian countryside told in flash fiction. The short chapters filled with technique made this book so easy to fly through and filled my student heart with so much joy analysing it. Jennings novel is filled with black humour and fresh and consistent characters whom you feel sympathy for, anger for (which makes them so real, as with any person you change your opinion on them depending on actions which fit their chatacter)
It's definitely more chatacter driven than plot, because the settings are limited (but that reflects how stuck Irene feels in the same place, doing the same thing etc. I think)
The only thing I can say as to why it didn't receive FIVE stars is because there were a few chapters which didn't teach me anything about the chatacter (new or to advance their development or the plot)
It's definitely more chatacter driven than plot, because the settings are limited (but that reflects how stuck Irene feels in the same place, doing the same thing etc. I think)
The only thing I can say as to why it didn't receive FIVE stars is because there were a few chapters which didn't teach me anything about the chatacter (new or to advance their development or the plot)