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The Sunshine Court by Nora Sakavic

3 reviews

flowerparrish's review

emotional inspiring tense medium-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

5.0

I have wanted this book desperately since 2016 and it lived up to every hope of what it could be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Gaslighting, Grief, Confinement, Violence, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Bullying, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Slavery

Moderate: Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Sexual harassment, Murder, Trafficking, Torture, Suicide, Medical content, Suicide attempt, and Stalking

Minor: Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Drug use, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

veolie's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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

“I am just a Moreau,” Jean said, flat and fierce. “I am not—” “

So was Elodie

,” Neil reminded him, and Jean stopped breathing. “Remember that the next time you think you aren’t worth saving.”

I was scared of the book ending, I don't want it to end, checking the status bar all the time, keep reading paragraphs again and again so that they will last longer, until I soaked every word up and burned it into my memory.

I would've liked the story to be about Jean learning to love himself, disattached from Jerejean (I'm more of a Renejean type of person anyways), but I guess the majority of the crowd really looked forward to it and Nora delivered on that note.

This book is what we all wanted, but didn't know we needed yet.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Self harm, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Torture

pa1nted's review

dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Grief, Murder, Child death, Child abuse, Suicide attempt, Trafficking, Cursing, and Drug use

Minor: Medical content, Confinement, Abandonment, Blood, Forced institutionalization, and Homophobia