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nerdkitten's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Ableism, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Xenophobia, and Dementia
Moderate: Animal death, Chronic illness, Genocide, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Child death, Cursing, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Excrement, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Classism, and Deportation
emmaura's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
I loved the setting and the plot, and enjoyed how the themes of forgetting, identity, and forgiveness were explored so rigorously.
The pacing however was questionable, with pages and pages of dialogue leading nowhere and then huge plot points being glossed over in 1 or 2 lines. I loved the writing style of the descriptions but by the end of the book I was so bored by the constant back and forth dialogue.
The ending was great and really fit the book.
Minor: Rape
thesapphiccelticbookworm's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Moderate: Child death and Kidnapping
Minor: Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and War
spookfish's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.5
'I wonder if what we feel in our hearts today isn't like these raindrops still falling on us from the soaked leaves above, even though the sky itself long stopped raining. I'm wondering if without our memories, there's nothing for it but for our love to fade and die.'
'Yet are you so certain, good mistress, you wish to be free of this mist? Is it not better some things remain hidden from our minds?'
(...) 'We'll have the bad ones come back too, even if they make us weep or shake with anger. For isn't it the life we've shared?'
'I'll never , never give her up.'
(...) 'You've known a long time now there's no cure to save her. How will you bear it, what now lies in wait for her? Do you long for that day you watch your dearest love twist in agony and with nothing to offer but kind words for her ear?'
'How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly? Or a peace hold for ever built on slaughter (...)? I see how devoutly you wish it, for your old horrors to crumble as dust. Yet they await in the soil as white bones for men to uncover.'
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Violence, Blood, Dementia, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment
Minor: Confinement, Rape, Sexual assault, and Religious bigotry
erikwmj's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Moderate: Violence and Kidnapping
Minor: Rape