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skilah's review
challenging
dark
reflective
fast-paced
- 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
4.75
fyarae's review
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
An enslaved woman kills those who have been the arbiters of her paint and the world demands balance through her.
ghada_mohammed's review
4.0
Hauntingly raw, morally-questionable albeit honest, revolving around an interesting protagonist with impossible character development in under 30 pages. The length was my only complaint.
mxpringle's review
dark
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
This really makes me want to dive deeper into Rivers Solomon's writing. Definitely some weird and grotesque parts, but that really made me enjoy it all the more. I only wished that it would've been longer, maybe even in just a novella form to expand on some of these ideas a little further. This really makes me think I would enjoy some of her longer form novels.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, Racism, Slavery, and Death
joghansah's review
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Phenomenal!!
isbn_978teb's review
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
wollibs's review
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
mollyfischfriedman's review
3.0
This story is written so coldly and matter-of-factly, and sometimes that is shocking and discomforting (rightly so), and sometimes it's just descriptive and matter-of-fact.
jmarquette's review
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
wanderlustlover's review
3.0
Hugo 2020 Nominations (Best Short Story);
This story, set in America's Civil War era, focus on a fifteen-year-old slave girl, named Sully, who frees herself from bondage by the murder of her owners and all their related family after hearing the man of the house has died in the war. Whats happens unexpectedly because of this becomes the rest of the story.
I very much liked the richness of this story. It's stark, dark, and cruel (or 'crotchety,' as Ziza would say), just as much as it is accepting, loyal, and compassionate. There is blood and gore aplenty, so that as a warning if you weren't quite prepared. The name definitely hits both 'blood' and 'hunger' to a 't' on the story subject matter. I very much loved the interplay with the Balance of Life and Death, and how it must be kept.
I was incredibly glad to see the story ending a surprisingly hopeful note, and something of a beautiful hint about the future relationship of the two main characters.
This story, set in America's Civil War era, focus on a fifteen-year-old slave girl, named Sully, who frees herself from bondage by the murder of her owners and all their related family after hearing the man of the house has died in the war. Whats happens unexpectedly because of this becomes the rest of the story.
I very much liked the richness of this story. It's stark, dark, and cruel (or 'crotchety,' as Ziza would say), just as much as it is accepting, loyal, and compassionate. There is blood and gore aplenty, so that as a warning if you weren't quite prepared. The name definitely hits both 'blood' and 'hunger' to a 't' on the story subject matter. I very much loved the interplay with the Balance of Life and Death, and how it must be kept.
I was incredibly glad to see the story ending a surprisingly hopeful note, and something of a beautiful hint about the future relationship of the two main characters.