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Este mundo ciego by Jesmyn Ward

16 reviews

sarah_sunshine9's review against another edition

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dark medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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mamaofperfectpayton's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Absolutely excellent writing - beautiful descriptions that made me feel like I was there. But it was a book about slavery, which made it difficult to read and I didn’t want to feel like I was there.
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mariavdl's review against another edition

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dark sad slow-paced
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

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sarahyjackson's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

A really sensorial, brutal book. There’s a line about rejecting witness as a balm during suffering and it really look me out. Poetic and important - made me consider belonging (to self to each other to god(s)). 
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emelynreads's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Heart wrenching historical fiction about the realities of slavery in the American south. Even though it's seems like a short read (wide line spacing) it is challenging to read because of the traumatic subject nature. After finishing the book, I mainly felt a deep sorrow.
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caseythereader's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional sad medium-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? No

4.25

Thanks to Scribner Books for the free copy of this book.

 - LET US DESCEND takes the framework of Dante's INFERNO and applies it to the story of a young enslaved girl. As you might expect, this book is dark and often horrific read, but in Ward's hands the story gives us both the beauty and the pain of Annis, the people she encounters, and the landscape she inhabits.
- This book is a study in the many forms grief can take, both on personal and community-wide levels, born both out of pain and love.
- Personally, I wished for a little more detail on the spirits Annis encountered, but that might just be the sci-fi/fantasy reader in me, I always want more there. 
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