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anotherauthor's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Undset transports you to a different time beautifully, pulling the reader into a woman’s life throughout decades. Though at times slow, the book’s plot kept drawing me back in. In a re-read, I would more slowly contemplate the heavy religious themes in the book.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death, Death, and Death of parent
taural41's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Child death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and War
Minor: Death of parent and Murder
victoria_annette's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I love this book. I read it as a teenager and enjoyed it, but then I read it as an adult and was absolutely floored by it. Completely absorbing, strangely realistic for a novel written in the 1920's about the 1300's, and (to this reader at least, as a wife and a mother) hauntingly relatable. Worth rereading at every stage of life, I'd think.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Gore, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Physical abuse, and Medical content
Minor: Miscarriage