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camsara99's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
marina_claveria's review against another edition
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Incest
sword_spider's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
5.0
It was a journey. The nature of the subject matter may be off-putting to potential readers, but it is handled delicately. One may read this in safety. It is a moving tale about an individual's experiencing of the cosmos, or of their experience of the heavenly and the earthly.
chaelv's review against another edition
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? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
It hints to an incestuous love between father and daughter.
josettte's review against another edition
dark
emotional
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
Truly like father like daughter…
fioni's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
mary motherfucking shelley!!!
i would like to marry this woman's prose. i would read her shopping list.
"In truth I am in love with death; no maiden ever took more pleasure in the contemplation of her bridal attire than I in fancying my limbs already enwrapt in their shroud: is it not my marriage dress?"
this book was not what i expected. i only knew about the incest plot, and thought it was going to be terribly disgusting. i did not expect the nose dive into depression and suicide. it was delightful. it's rare for me to relate to a narrator / main character this much (never mind what this says about me), and here, especially in the last few chapters, every other paragraph gutted me like a fish.
i would like to marry this woman's prose. i would read her shopping list.
"In truth I am in love with death; no maiden ever took more pleasure in the contemplation of her bridal attire than I in fancying my limbs already enwrapt in their shroud: is it not my marriage dress?"
this book was not what i expected. i only knew about the incest plot, and thought it was going to be terribly disgusting. i did not expect the nose dive into depression and suicide. it was delightful. it's rare for me to relate to a narrator / main character this much (never mind what this says about me), and here, especially in the last few chapters, every other paragraph gutted me like a fish.
razmatesz's review
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
khaufnaak's review against another edition
4.0
I read this over four months, so I don’t exactly remember my experiences along the entire journey. In the beginning I disliked the writing slightly, because it reminded me of the sad philosophizing of a teenage girl on Wattpad. Which I guess would make sense considering that perhaps a remarkable number of teenage girls on Wattpad have emotionally incestuous relationships with their fathers.
I actually do like this book. I think it captures early on a young girl’s experiences with a childhood of emotional neglect. When she has a good time with her father, you actually feel happy for her and can authentically connect with the joy it brings her. This book has no actual incest and is not sexually explicit at all. I think it’s an expression of what emotional incest must be like.
Mathilda’s saga with Woodville is I think when we see some of Mary Shelley’s best writing for this book. I think it really encapsulates the richness of this beautiful love, how it feels for Mathilda to feel her own love and that love which Woodville expresses for her. Woodville is very much a perfect emotionally intelligent type of character.
Overall a pretty good book. It expresses a lot of pain and suffering and also later this kind of restrained but rich love. It’s also very dark, even though there isn’t any physical incest, the disgust and sadness that was invoked in me while reading this was overwhelming. Mathilda loves her father greatly, but is violated and pained by his confession of incestuous love for her. It’s terrifying.
I actually do like this book. I think it captures early on a young girl’s experiences with a childhood of emotional neglect. When she has a good time with her father, you actually feel happy for her and can authentically connect with the joy it brings her. This book has no actual incest and is not sexually explicit at all. I think it’s an expression of what emotional incest must be like.
Mathilda’s saga with Woodville is I think when we see some of Mary Shelley’s best writing for this book. I think it really encapsulates the richness of this beautiful love, how it feels for Mathilda to feel her own love and that love which Woodville expresses for her. Woodville is very much a perfect emotionally intelligent type of character.
Overall a pretty good book. It expresses a lot of pain and suffering and also later this kind of restrained but rich love. It’s also very dark, even though there isn’t any physical incest, the disgust and sadness that was invoked in me while reading this was overwhelming. Mathilda loves her father greatly, but is violated and pained by his confession of incestuous love for her. It’s terrifying.