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annakelly's review against another edition
5.0
This book was F A N T A S T I C.
I honestly hope more people pick this up because it deserves more attention!!
I honestly hope more people pick this up because it deserves more attention!!
emma_burcart's review against another edition
5.0
So beautiful and sad. I couldn’t put it down until I finished the whole thing. It demands to be read in one sitting and I’ll probably read it again, but out loud.
grimamethyst's review
dark
sad
fast-paced
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Blood, Violence, Sexual violence, and Torture
bract4813mypacksnet's review
5.0
Many Restless Concerns is a dark yet beautiful, lyrical, and enchanting read. I read this prose/poetry novel in one sitting, then immediately flipped to the beginning. Though the horror was difficult to endure even the first time, Brandeis’s haunting words pulled me back into the story. I found it very compelling that the book addressed me, the reader, directly involving me in the
Between 1585 and 1609, a Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed allegedly killed 650 girls aged ten to fourteen to become the world’s most prolific murderer. Not satisfied with simple killing, she used masochistic methods which Brandeis staggers across the page—stab, strangle, pummel, hack, burn, drown, freeze, scald—so that each stands alone, yet joined to the others, so the reader sees and feels the pain these girls endured. They cry out: “Your body remembers even when you no longer have a body, some tender part of you still flinches; some immaterial nerves still flare.”
Because Brandeis tells her story from the point of view of the victims, she avoids the fetishization of Báthory’s killings. She begs the reader to not look away, but to remember her nameless victims, not the perpetrator. Not only should we not look away from Báthory’s victims, we should stand witness to the countless women who are harmed around the world on a daily basis.
Between 1585 and 1609, a Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed allegedly killed 650 girls aged ten to fourteen to become the world’s most prolific murderer. Not satisfied with simple killing, she used masochistic methods which Brandeis staggers across the page—stab, strangle, pummel, hack, burn, drown, freeze, scald—so that each stands alone, yet joined to the others, so the reader sees and feels the pain these girls endured. They cry out: “Your body remembers even when you no longer have a body, some tender part of you still flinches; some immaterial nerves still flare.”
Because Brandeis tells her story from the point of view of the victims, she avoids the fetishization of Báthory’s killings. She begs the reader to not look away, but to remember her nameless victims, not the perpetrator. Not only should we not look away from Báthory’s victims, we should stand witness to the countless women who are harmed around the world on a daily basis.
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