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silverhill'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
4.5
Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Stalking, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Gun violence, Racism, Classism, Colonisation, Bullying, Abandonment, and Emotional abuse
Minor: Death of parent, Self harm, Pregnancy, and Mental illness
fatedefied'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? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Self harm
Moderate: Xenophobia, Racism, Racial slurs, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Abandonment
sweetreads'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? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Forced institutionalization
Moderate: Racism
shadowspinner'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? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Blood
Moderate: Abandonment and Racism
skbat'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? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Animal cruelty, Grief, Gun violence, and Abandonment
Moderate: Torture, Murder, Death, Death of parent, Violence, Self harm, Animal death, Colonisation, and Racism
Minor: Sexual assault, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Alcohol
r_clark'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? N/A
4.75
Moderate: Racism and Abandonment
milenaaax98'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
5.0
Graphic: Racism, Death, Violence, Gaslighting, Confinement, and Abandonment
Moderate: Gun violence and Animal cruelty
phantomgecko's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
I was confused as to why there needed to be a book within in the book telling the same story as what was happening, but it was all revealed in time.
idk, just a fun little book. Would recommend.
Moderate: Racism, Abandonment, and Forced institutionalization
tiffanielle's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
3.5
Moderate: Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Death, and Forced institutionalization
lingfish7's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
2.5
- The book is highly quotable and I found myself in love with the wispy ways she crafted sentences in the narration.
- I loved the story within a story. The main character, January, stumbles upon a book that describes a love story between Yule and Adelaide, two lovers who met at the entrance to a door to each other’s worlds. This story was captivating, but it was the secondary story and not the main one. I don’t think the author intended for this story to come across as more interesting but it did. This made the rest of the story feel slower.
- I didn’t love the main character, January. She lacked depth and was fairly one dimensional and stagnant. I liked her movement from a people pleaser to a rebel but that didn’t feel like real growth, only the author’s attempt at character development. It fell flat, emotionally.
- The author’s description of January being an “in between girl” bordered on racist. Her skin was described as reddish and that didn’t sit right with me given the American indigenous population. I also felt like the author’s attempts to make it seem like January was a subject of racism (the book being set in the early 1900’s) felt off and possibly historically inaccurate. It didn’t feel very real.
- I had to both read the hardcopy and listen to the audiobook in order to finish it because of the many lulls in the story.
- By the end of the book I wasn’t invested enough in any character to desire a happy ending. I predicted it would end happy in a fairly stereotypical way and it did. There was no anticipation or relief once it arrived. 🤷🏻♀️
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Self harm, and Racism