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nrogers_1030's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Vomit, and Car accident
Minor: Animal death, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Classism
ladycats's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
0.25
Graphic: Death, Gore, Death of parent, and Murder
Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Acephobia/Arophobia
Minor: Animal death
rosie_valadez's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Death, Gore, and Murder
Moderate: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Acephobia/Arophobia
Minor: Animal death
allisonsmith120's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Blood, and Grief
Moderate: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal death and Vomit
halfelfschollar's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
4.0
Graphic: Child death and Death
Moderate: Racism, Sexual content, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Sexism
beccaand's review
- 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
4.25
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder
Moderate: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Acephobia/Arophobia
lauralintunen's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Acephobia/Arophobia
Moderate: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Car accident, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
maple_dove's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Before reading this book, I read Extasia. The feminist and queer themes are definitely present in Sawkill Girls too. I liked this book throughout, but my favorite parts are after the halfway mark.
The asexual alloromantic and exes-to-friends representation was GREATTT!
However, there is one qualm I have about this book.
He had insisted on cleaning up the kitchen before turning in, otherwise the crusty layers of casserole on their late-night dinner plates would fester and haunt him, snickering in the kitchen while he lay awake staring at the ceiling.
The adorable little freak.
. . .
From what I know, the word freak is a pretty triggering word for the disabled community, because it implies that they are things to be feared.
⭐️ Favorite Quotes:
"Can I once again apologize on behalf of men everywhere?" Grayson offered. "Because we can really fucking suck sometimes."
Zoey arched an eyebrow. "Sometimes?"
"Most of the time."
"There it is."
Marion couldn't imagine a God like the one she'd grown up hearing about--some man sitting in the clouds, maneuvering the pieces of the world to suit his whims because he, of course, knows best.
But she could imagine a God in the shape of an island crowned with trees, brooding in the middle of a black sea.
"I don't know what will happen to us once we get to the obscura. The book says he can't be killed--"
"Screw that book," said Val. "It was written by men." She held out her free hand to Marion. "We're rewriting it." (pg. 385-386)
Marion stood at the port side railing, her back to everyone and her black hair streaming out behind her--a dark queen, surveying the battlefield.
"What's wrong with you?" Zoey had never heard Valerie Mortimer's voice sound so unfinished. "None of this is necessary--"
"I will decide what is necessary!" howled Briggs, his grip tightening painfully around Zoey's arm. "This is the way it is done. This is the way our fathers taught us."
"Your fathers," Val replied, "were full of shit." (pg. 398)
"The Collector must feed. He must be banished from our world. So it has been done, and so it is done, and so it shall always be done."
"And so it shall always be done," repeated the men, reminding Zoey of the way Borg drones proclaimed they were going to assimilate you, that resistance was futile, that you were screwed and there was no way out, sorry about that.
[...]
But then Marion spoke.
"And so," she said, her voice low and serene, "it shall never done again." (pg. 398-399)
"It's not our job to save the world. It can't be. That's not fair."
"If it's not our job," Marion asked quietly, "whose is it?"
Hope, she thought, breathing with the tide, was a choice that only those with resolute hearts dared to make.
Stardust cares not for the agony of demons.
Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Sexual content, Kidnapping, and Acephobia/Arophobia
Minor: Cancer, Drug use, Racism, Suicide, Vomit, and Car accident
Underage drinking (graphic), Verbal abuse (minor)chellyfishing's review
- 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
3.5
Graphic: Death, Sexism, and Murder
Moderate: Sexual content and Acephobia/Arophobia
frog_appreciator's review against another edition
3.5
cult thing in general, didn’t fit the flow of the story. There was one line about young girls and their hunger, which if expanded upon could have made the whole thing more meaningful but on its on felt out of place. Also the horses and moths and the land in general, wish the connection to the rock was made more explicit. Just would have been a stronger read
CW: bugs, mainly moths but one scene with lots of spiders too
Graphic: Body horror, Sexual violence, Grief, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Murder
Moderate: Sexual content and Car accident
Minor: Self harm