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rainbopagn's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Confinement, Cancer, Police brutality, and Terminal illness
picaresquedreamer's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Confinement, Suicide, Death, and Infertility
Moderate: Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Terminal illness, Blood, and Mental illness
Minor: Misogyny, Violence, Sexual violence, and Police brutality
taylormoore's review
- 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? It's complicated
4.25
Graphic: Kidnapping and Death
Moderate: Violence and Police brutality
josiemeyer's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Moderate: Grief, Death, Murder, Terminal illness, Cancer, Police brutality, Slavery, and Suicide
refrejarator's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Moderate: Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Excrement, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Self harm, War, Cancer, Grief, Police brutality, Suicide, Dementia, and Terminal illness
rionstorm's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
If you are looking for fast paced or hopeful dystopian fiction you won't like this.
Ending spoilers
Graphic: Grief, Murder, Death, Terminal illness, Infertility, Kidnapping, Confinement, Abandonment, and Suicide
Moderate: Police brutality and Physical abuse
overmonroeville'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? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Violence, Terminal illness, and Confinement
Moderate: Suicide
magicshop's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
4.0
And gradually, I began to feel sorry for those women determined to carry on living, pretending they were active and making decisions in the prison where they were locked up for ever, from which death was the only release – but would they remove the bodies?
spoilers and full review below.
you slowly find out more about this narrator as the story goes on. what you do know right away is that she lives in a bunker with about 20 (or 40, i can’t recall) other women and that they are trapped in that bunker, which is constantly watched by several guards, all day and all night. they have been living in that nightmarish prison for most of the narrator’s young life.
Graphic: Police brutality, Suicide attempt, Confinement, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Infertility, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Gaslighting, and Violence
Minor: Alcohol