Reviews

The Street by Ann Petry

elleestpartie's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• 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

5.0

matryoshka7's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

desireeslibrary's review

3.0

Ann Petry is a phenomenal writer. She was a way of creating scenes that take their time to unfold and allows the reader to view the world through the eyes of her characters. She is remarkable in the way which she demonstrates how a novel can capture skewed worldviews and portray disordered thinking. Now, I am all for painful and poignant writing.... This was absolutely relentless and heavy handed. Honestly, it was a bit forcefully hateful. It was simply an overly depressing and borderline hateful novel about the lives of people who are too poor or oppressed to make it in a world that hates them.

mjihadah's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

john_bizzell's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

torrie_reads's review against another edition

4.0

Thoughts

"From the time she was born, she had been hemmed into an ever-narrowing space, until now she was very nearly walled in and the wall had been built up brick by brick by eager white hands."

Y'all didn't lie about this one. Sometimes words just escape you. And I really don't know what to say about this one but that you should read it. 

"Her voice had a thin thread of sadness running through it that made the song important, that made it tell a story that wasn’t in the words – a story of despair, of loneliness, of frustration. It was a story that all of them knew by heart and had always known because they had learned it soon after they were born and would go on adding to it until the day they died."

readingrandbow's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense

4.5

ogbarbie's review

5.0

I absolutely LOVED this book.

m_k_k's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

lizandherworldofbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25