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A review by artemiscat
One Hundred Days of Rain by Carellin Brooks
5.0
Read in one (dry) evening- I was struck by how much emotion and story hung behind the veil of constant, poetic, and real rainstorms.
Spoilers bellow after all the rain rain rain
A cursory glance at other reviews paints the main character as abusive when I read the entire point as being the main character is escaping an abusive relationship where her ex uses the cops and lawyers and threats of child protective services as a way of begging attention, continuing harm and threatening worse...but I guess that’s up to interpretation? (Kinda? Not really) and also the prickly sadness of still missing this difficult hurtful person, of mourning, of rebuilding and continuing...
Hard rec for those who value prose and nuance and emotional introspection over over explained plot or reductive blanket statements like the ones I’ve made above while trying to summarize this text
Spoilers bellow after all the rain rain rain
A cursory glance at other reviews paints the main character as abusive when I read the entire point as being the main character is escaping an abusive relationship where her ex uses the cops and lawyers and threats of child protective services as a way of begging attention, continuing harm and threatening worse...but I guess that’s up to interpretation? (Kinda? Not really) and also the prickly sadness of still missing this difficult hurtful person, of mourning, of rebuilding and continuing...
Hard rec for those who value prose and nuance and emotional introspection over over explained plot or reductive blanket statements like the ones I’ve made above while trying to summarize this text