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Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Dysphoria
And don’t know if it’s my ADHD or what, but so many of the sentences were sooo long (one even had two semicolons!) that I had no idea what was happening by the time I got to the end of it. I had to keep re-reading sections bc I kept zoning out of boredom.
I also wish that Eleanor and Theodora had more dissimilar names, bc I could not keep track of who was who for way too long. Mrs. Dudley felt like an NPC who’d only been programmed with a few set lines and very rarely deviated from them.
I was left with WAY more questions than answers. Many say this is done on purpose to be creepier - there are times where that works, but it just feels like lazy (or unskilled) writing to me. I don’t care how many awards it’s received. I love a good psychological horror/thriller/mystery, and while there were a couple times I actually got really into it, it’s disappointing that they were such short sections of the book. No good payoff in the end. While this isn’t even that old, it further cements my previous belief that older books are not for me.
Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Blood, Toxic friendship
Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol
Minor: Misogyny, Sexism, Fire/Fire injury
Also Mrs. Montague is the most annoying woman I’ve ever read. And I can’t tell if that’s a testament to the authors skill or something I hated about the book. Maybe it’s both.
Journeys end in lovers meeting.
Moderate: Sexism
Minor: Suicide
Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Sexism, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Bullying, Confinement, Death, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Suicide
Moderate: Bullying, Death, Car accident, Death of parent, Abandonment
Minor: Confinement, Gun violence, Mental illness, Sexism, Blood, Grief, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship
Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Dysphoria
Graphic: Death, Suicide, Car accident, Death of parent
Minor: Bullying, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence