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summerfireflies'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? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Medical trauma, and Colonisation
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Medical content, Grief, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment
becca9849's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
cantfindmybookmark's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, and Classism
Moderate: Confinement, Incest, Torture, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Murder
aseel_reads'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? It's complicated
3.75
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Incest, Infertility, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
greatexpectations77's review
- 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? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Colonisation, and Classism
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infertility, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Animal cruelty and Child death
If reading about babies and birth upsets you in any way, this book may not be for you.msradiosilence's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
By all accounts, Frances’ story is a tragedy, and not necessarily of her own making. She’s a strong woman prone to making choices everyone warns her against, but their her choices to make. She did the best she could in her situations, even if the best was something truly horrific.
There can be some interesting speculation on whether Frances is a reliable narrator or not, considering the story is from her point of view, but I think a woman
Anyway, as much as it hurt me, I did really enjoy the book. One of the only 5 star reads from 2021.
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
spiderwitch's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Child death, Mental illness, Blood, Abortion, and Murder
caseythereader's review against another edition
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
📚 This book does feature a forbidden sapphic romance, but I appreciated that neither party had an existential crisis over it.
📚 This book is full of complex, complicated characters and it doesn't let anyone off the hook for the choices they made.
📚 It's a gothic novel not in the sense of the supernatural, but in that the truth of our racist history is grim and unspeakable.
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Content warnings: addiction, alcoholism, child abuse, child death, death, domestic abuse, drug abuse, emotional abuse, incest, homophobia,medical content, medical trauma, miscarriage, misogyny, physical abuse, racial slurs, racism, rape, sexism, slavery, sexual violence, suicide, torture, trafficking, and violence.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Trafficking, and Medical trauma