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The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

4 reviews

frances_frances's review

challenging emotional reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book is basically a series of vignettes of 4 specific people's lives. There's no plot; instead there's a running narrative of the characters daily experiences during and after the war. This was sometimes really interesting and sometimes a tad boring. However, Sarah Waters' writing is so beautiful and engaging that it makes slow, drawn out stories become compelling page turners. The Night Watch is the last Waters novel I had left to read. I have my favorite books of her's (Fingersmith and The Little Stranger), but all of them are well worth the read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, War, Death, Abortion, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, and Self harm

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Child death

steviaplath's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Death, Abortion, Blood, Suicide, Xenophobia, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, War, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Classism, Medical content, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Transphobia, Abandonment, Death of parent, Antisemitism, Confinement, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Medical trauma, and Misogyny

Minor: Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Outing, Ableism, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Vomit

anditsreal's review

emotional sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Suicide

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

anxiousapple's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Blood, Self harm, Suicide, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Medical content and Vomit