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lanid's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Suicide, Torture, Confinement, Death of parent, Child death, Gore, Murder, and Violence
madarauchiha's review against another edition
✨🌠 my about / byf / CW info carrd: uchiha-madara 🌠✨
It's interesting, prose and plot, but I'm not interested in this genre.
It's interesting, prose and plot, but I'm not interested in this genre.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent, Pedophilia, Child abuse, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Animal death, Ableism, and Death of parent
Minor: Excrement
ninjasunknown's review against another edition
dark
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death and Murder
Minor: Suicide and Death of parent
writtenontheflyleaves's review
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
3.0
Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda, trans. Martha Tennent 🌸
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⚠️ CN for mention of suicide in this review!
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🪶 The plot: After witnessing his father’s suicide, a teenage boy comes of age abruptly in a remote village in the Catalan mountains, where customs are blindly obeyed, and deviation from the norm is punished.
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If I had to describe my reading experience with this book in four words, those words would be “no thoughts, just vibes”. I did not feel like I had a CLUE what was going on for most of this book, I was just happy to be along for the ride!
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The story is told in beautiful prose that flows from lush imagery (overgrown wisteria, a rushing river, a cloud of white butterflies) to shocking moments of brutality: faces disfigured from being dashed against rocks, bodies decomposing, torture and cruelty. If it were a Taylor Swift song, it would be Blank Space because it really is a nightmare dressed like a daydream!!
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Rodoreda wrote in Catalan and was exiled from Spain during Franco’s regime. Death in Spring is widely read as an allegory for life lived under a dictatorship, and there is definitely an oppressiveness to this novel which I appreciated, though I think I lacked the contextual pieces to fully understand how good it is!
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🪓 Read it if you like dreamy, unreal narratives that have something fairytale-like about them, with a horror story edge. Big poetry readers and fans of the film Midsommar should check it out.
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🚫 Avoid it if you don’t want to read about death (obvi), particularly parental death, suicide, and the death of a child. There’s also just a lot of violence and fucked up stuff in this book - don’t let the gorgeous cover fool you, it’s not a light read!
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⚠️ CN for mention of suicide in this review!
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🪶 The plot: After witnessing his father’s suicide, a teenage boy comes of age abruptly in a remote village in the Catalan mountains, where customs are blindly obeyed, and deviation from the norm is punished.
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If I had to describe my reading experience with this book in four words, those words would be “no thoughts, just vibes”. I did not feel like I had a CLUE what was going on for most of this book, I was just happy to be along for the ride!
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The story is told in beautiful prose that flows from lush imagery (overgrown wisteria, a rushing river, a cloud of white butterflies) to shocking moments of brutality: faces disfigured from being dashed against rocks, bodies decomposing, torture and cruelty. If it were a Taylor Swift song, it would be Blank Space because it really is a nightmare dressed like a daydream!!
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Rodoreda wrote in Catalan and was exiled from Spain during Franco’s regime. Death in Spring is widely read as an allegory for life lived under a dictatorship, and there is definitely an oppressiveness to this novel which I appreciated, though I think I lacked the contextual pieces to fully understand how good it is!
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🪓 Read it if you like dreamy, unreal narratives that have something fairytale-like about them, with a horror story edge. Big poetry readers and fans of the film Midsommar should check it out.
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🚫 Avoid it if you don’t want to read about death (obvi), particularly parental death, suicide, and the death of a child. There’s also just a lot of violence and fucked up stuff in this book - don’t let the gorgeous cover fool you, it’s not a light read!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent, Violence, Animal death, Child death, and Death
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