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cantfindmybookmark's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Confinement, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, and Slavery
Moderate: Child death, Sexual assault, and Torture
nialiversuch's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cancer, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Abortion
kaylaramoutar'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? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
Graphic: Child death, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Confinement, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Death of parent, and War
littlewishling's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Slavery
Moderate: Child death, Death, and Rape
Minor: War
sofipitch'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? It's complicated
4.5
I would really recommend this book but do check the trigger warnings, if some topics are an issue for you.
(Just my soapbox but I think this book is very firmly magical realism, not fantasy, and honestly that a book can't be both in the fantasy and magical realism genres, they both have magic but the fundamentals contradict one another.)
Graphic: Child death, Death, Hate crime, Racism, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Confinement, Drug use, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Rape, Slavery, Religious bigotry, Abortion, and War
Minor: Addiction, Cancer, Blood, and Dementia
rescudde's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Blood, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy
khakipantsofsex's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
3.75
Moderate: Child death, Miscarriage, Rape, Abortion, and Pregnancy
wellreadjill_'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
4.75
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Medical trauma, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting
xenvirtue's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Minor: Child death, Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Pregnancy, and War
laurareads87'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
<i>Content warnings:</i> this novel is set during and just after slavery in the American South and, as such, depicts the horrors of slavery: murder, violence, lynching, rape, torture, death of children, miscarriage, racism, misogyny, forcible confinement, medical violence
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Medical trauma, and Death of parent