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morebedsidebooks's review against another edition
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death and Grief
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Sexual assault, Death of parent, and Alcohol
Minor: Pregnancy
streberkatze's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- 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? No
4.5
The mix of historical fact and fiction was unlike anything I had ever read and made for an instantly engrossing read. The parallel timelines as well as the switches in narrator perspective worked really well and created a tension that kept me on the edge of my seat until the final page.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship
joannalouise's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Drug use, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and War
Moderate: Death of parent
kteq's review against another edition
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.75
This started to hit different about halfway through, and I became more invested as a listener. I’m walking away with a sense that this was a tragedy, primarily, with speculative historical fiction as a secondary element.
There is Eurocentric 1800s-typical convention and language surrounding gender, marriage, disability, etc., with one timeline highlighting how the Romanticism of Shelley’s contemporaries was unable to subvert any of that in a meaningful way. No mention or exploration of race or class; the translator makes an afterward about the biographical and geographical research that went into the original novel and its translation.
There is Eurocentric 1800s-typical convention and language surrounding gender, marriage, disability, etc., with one timeline highlighting how the Romanticism of Shelley’s contemporaries was unable to subvert any of that in a meaningful way. No mention or exploration of race or class; the translator makes an afterward about the biographical and geographical research that went into the original novel and its translation.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Death of parent
Minor: Child death
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