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Stay and Fight by Madeline ffitch

6 reviews

cheye13's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This was a wonderful, understated story about making a family and a life with intention. There's nothing exceptional or remarkable about this story, but it's emotional in its simplicity. I enjoyed the writing style and appreciated the depiction of an unconventional family.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Classism, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Misogyny, Pregnancy, Grief, Suicide, Bullying, Lesbophobia, and Racism

Minor: Drug abuse, Gun violence, Excrement, Gaslighting, and Sexual content

also note: eco-terrorism, snakes; a large part of the plot involves a child [subjectively] wrongly taken into foster care; a number of tense/dangerous and near-death logging scenes; jail time for trespassing; discovering a suicide; most prejudice warnings are for flippant dialogue, except for a brief scene involving an overtly racist and misogynistic man, dealt with accordingly

ktkeps's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Alcoholism, Classism, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Lesbophobia, and Bullying

obviousthings's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Pregnancy, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Animal death

Moderate: Transphobia, Gun violence, Ableism, Alcohol, and Mental illness

savvylit's review

adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced

• 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

At the heart of Stay and Fight is the perfectly imperfect chosen family of Helen, Karen, Lily, and Perley. Immersing readers in multiple points of view, Ffitch brings each character to vivid life. Stay and Fight is a story about resiliency in the face of obstacles that would break most people. It's about forging one's own path in a community where that sort of thing is uncommon. And it's also about fierce, blazing love. Love for each other, love for the land, love for the possibilities that hard work can bring.

Reading this book, it's obvious that Ffitch drew from her own experience as a homesteader while writing Stay and Fight. She portrays homesteading in an honest way: simultaneously incredibly difficult and deeply fulfilling. I truly appreciate Ffitch's insight and her ability to poke fun at some of the impulses that lead folks like Helen and myself to think that we want to build a homestead from scratch. It won't be easy at all -- but that's part of the appeal.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Lesbophobia, Animal death, Bullying, and Pregnancy

maceydowns's review

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

my whole heart is in this book 🧡🐍

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Bullying, Animal death, Lesbophobia, Death, Misogyny, Mental illness, and Suicide

Moderate: Colonisation, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual harassment, Grief, Child abuse, and Sexual content

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

melaniekarin's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

beautiful story about an unconventional family living on a pipeline

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Lesbophobia, Suicide, and Bullying