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loquaciousleon's reviews
29 reviews
4.5
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
It felt like the 303 pages before it were rushed and written by someone using the author's name.
85-90% of the book genuinely surprised me with how poorly it was written.
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
This is the book that is close to my heart.
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.75
Throughout the book I found what felt like typos, or at least what felt like poorly written sentences. Sometimes there whole sections from a paragraph, to a few chapters, that were written in a way that were very juvenile and took me out of the reading.
Overall, I will keep the book to give to a younger person in the future. It had some very interesting elements and good themes to it.
Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Xenophobia, Blood, and Kidnapping
- 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
This is a book I was buying for people before I finished.
AND, this book is heavy. (A lot of trigger warnings.)
Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Car accident, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Additionally: I got to page 100 and events were unfolding that I assumed would be stretched out over the course of the 500 page book. Sue Lynn Tan took me on an entire journey throughout it all.
It was wonderfully unexpected to have so much more packed into the story, and to have been done in a way I literally could not have imagined. Every 100 pages felt like a completely new foundation for the story to continue building upon.
Moderate: Confinement, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
- 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
5.0
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Colonisation, War, and Classism