Hi! Just found your review. In case you didn't know: the girl that had her death transmited during days was a real case (Omayra Sánchez, a 13 yo girl who died in Armeri, Colombia, and her death was shown on TV - I remember watching a little and my parents turning off the TV as soon as they realized). The references to the dead in the water was because of the "flights of death" (our dictatorship put some dissappeared in planes, durgged them and threw them in the Rio de la Plata -a river, but it is the widest in the world and at first colonizers confussed it with the sea- so they would die whwn crashing or drown). I guess it can be quite shocking if you don't grow up knowing this stuff or being something "normal" because it is recent and we are still finding common graves and stolen children.
Based on how it was written in the novel I did assume most of this was based in reality, but obviously don’t have the full scope of experience. Thank you so much for this context for these horrors.
Awesome review! About 1/3 and just wanted to hear others talk about it. Subscribed to hear your thoughts on other authors and books + to give some thoughts when I finish
so glad this popped up in the algorithm for me, I was excited for this book because I really loved The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. Now, after watching your great video, I'm wondering: would I get more out of the novel if I also read Things We Lost in the Fire?
Great book. Kind of sad that you did not research the political history of the decades that are at the beginning of each section of the book. Juans s abuse of Gaspar is a result of his own childhood traumas. His father sold him to the Bradford / Reyes family. Juan ,was ,also, sick his entire life.The author uses the Darkness , the cult that worships it, rhe people that are sacrificed to it as a metaphor. If you have not already you should read The Mayfair witches trilogy series by Anne Rice.
Thank you for your thoughts. While I did some research, I knew I would not be able to completely encapsulate decades of history I don’t have intricate working knowledge of and did not want to dishonor that history by speaking out of turn. Rather, this video is simply my reactions to the work as a reader. I definitely picked up on the intergenerational trauma and metaphor, though I am sure I did not unpack it fully. I will keep the Mayfair Witches on my radar!
Hi! Just found your review. In case you didn't know: the girl that had her death transmited during days was a real case (Omayra Sánchez, a 13 yo girl who died in Armeri, Colombia, and her death was shown on TV - I remember watching a little and my parents turning off the TV as soon as they realized). The references to the dead in the water was because of the "flights of death" (our dictatorship put some dissappeared in planes, durgged them and threw them in the Rio de la Plata -a river, but it is the widest in the world and at first colonizers confussed it with the sea- so they would die whwn crashing or drown).
I guess it can be quite shocking if you don't grow up knowing this stuff or being something "normal" because it is recent and we are still finding common graves and stolen children.
Based on how it was written in the novel I did assume most of this was based in reality, but obviously don’t have the full scope of experience. Thank you so much for this context for these horrors.
Awesome review! About 1/3 and just wanted to hear others talk about it. Subscribed to hear your thoughts on other authors and books + to give some thoughts when I finish
Thanks for hanging out!
so glad this popped up in the algorithm for me, I was excited for this book because I really loved The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. Now, after watching your great video, I'm wondering: would I get more out of the novel if I also read Things We Lost in the Fire?
I definitely don’t think you need to, especially if you’re already familiar with her short story style, but it was a nice surprise!
Yes, alot of what happ in the book is true.
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The background/scene/history to this story is as horrific as the story of the Order. Yoh.
Absolutely!
Great book. Kind of sad that you did not research the political history of the decades that are at the beginning of each section of the book. Juans s abuse of Gaspar is a result of his own childhood traumas. His father sold him to the Bradford / Reyes family. Juan ,was ,also, sick his entire life.The author uses the Darkness , the cult that worships it, rhe people that are sacrificed to it as a metaphor. If you have not already you should read The Mayfair witches trilogy series by Anne Rice.
Thank you for your thoughts. While I did some research, I knew I would not be able to completely encapsulate decades of history I don’t have intricate working knowledge of and did not want to dishonor that history by speaking out of turn. Rather, this video is simply my reactions to the work as a reader. I definitely picked up on the intergenerational trauma and metaphor, though I am sure I did not unpack it fully.
I will keep the Mayfair Witches on my radar!