emzireads's review
challenging
dark
informative
slow-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape, Medical trauma, Colonisation, Sexual violence, and Genocide
Moderate: Addiction, Eating disorder, and Suicide
dreesreads's review
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
5 narrators. 2 mothers. 2 daughters. The father.
This novel is about women’s traumas and how they affect the following generation(s). But daughters also have hidden traumas—mothers blame themselves for things that are actually not entirely their fault.
This novel is about women’s traumas and how they affect the following generation(s). But daughters also have hidden traumas—mothers blame themselves for things that are actually not entirely their fault.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual violence, Abortion, Murder, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Rape
This book is about trauma and it gets all the content warnings.
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