A review by lumakip
Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
So well crafted, this very emotionally wrought book by Jennifer Down is a fictional account of a single person's life... the book journals through the pain and suffering of child abuse inside the Australian foster care system and subsequent harrowing life of losing children to SIDS at an early age …this book goes thru some things in very earnest and raw ways that its impossible to not be sucked into emotion...this is not a fun read, but its very honest, shocking, and gorgeous in its painful sentences
Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Drug use, Death, and Child death