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- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
This is something you could binge in a single sitting/day because it's that good and the mystery keeps you going. As well as it being 195 pages.
As someone who doesn't typically like series: I want to read the next book.
Moderate: Body horror and Injury/Injury detail
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Classism
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Moderate: Addiction, Blood, and Abandonment
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
THIS book???
This..book..Makes up the wall of my own heart.
Man, I was weeping. My heart felt like it was purging grief in the most romantic and healthy way.
I'm going to cry writing this because I'm near thinking about the book.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Cancer, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
this book will be the most painful treat.
(recovery from substances possibly gives you a bonus point for easier comprehension of some really abstract writing)
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and War
3.75
Passively hilarious, wholesome and insightful, atmospheric and whimsical.
I thought I was reading a fictional book before I saw it was labeled a memoir; oddly mid-cryptid read.
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
That being said, it wasn't an emotional based book I cried over.
All in all, an enjoyable read, more than I usually believe I will have for this genre. (As someone with mental health issues, though different from this character, who struggles to read items too close to life.)
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.25
The rest..¿
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throughout the book, it was so in-your-face the author is a white woman with some heavy internalized misogyny and racism, cause it was written in a way that was aware without having any awareness.
the beginning was littered with internalized misogyny that was very "I'm not like other PTA moms" or "criminals with ankle monitors" while the author desperately tried to paint the characters as both "holier" AND "more distraught" than thou.
Which would be possible to empathize with given the story, had it not been written in such a distasteful AND poor way.
near the beginning, there was also a bit along the lines of (paraphrasing) "I was surprised to remember the robber was white, and not mexican or black. Was that racist?"
The way it was written was more "oops" than it was "yes. that was racist. let's unpack, or at the very least acknowledge that."
And unfortunately these things were prevalent in many places throughout the book.
Final note: the fact that the author wrote the inner monologue of a character with the most absurd amount of questions that made me feel like we were running in panicked, tight circles, was almost insufferable.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail