Book Review: Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

[simply_shipping]

Title: Sunset Song (A Scots Quair #1)
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon (pseudonym for James Leslie Mitchell)
Pagecount: 248 (paperback)
Publisher: Polygon
Publishing date: April 9, 2006 (original published 1932)
Goodreads rating mean: 3.98 (161 ratings)
Goodreads rating mode: 5 (39%)
Goodreads rating median: 4
Publisher's summary: 'Oh, she hated and

Comments

[sour_idealist]

That sounds... erk.

[simply_shipping]

Well... Yes and no. The bits I was really concerned about really weren't as bad as I was anticipating. What was implied to be attempted incestuous rape was over and gone in half a page, and even the childbirth scene was fairly quick (though there was some seriously skeevy metaphors there - red hot pincers tearing her apart is the one I remember most vividly, though there were several more).

The domestic abuse, though, I was glad for that warning. And there were several other points where I wished I had had a warning.

So overall, my instincts of DO NOT WANT were spot on, even if the specifics were off a bit.

[sour_idealist]

Perhaps the psychic prompts only fine-tuned a latent ability, then? *adds book to list to not read, ever*

[simply_shipping]

Well, in that case a superpowers prompt wouldn't help much. *sigh* ;)

[ext_382002]

Great review and a book I'll definitely skip! :)