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Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter

17 reviews

dustghosts's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, and Toxic friendship

rachaelwho's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Deeply depressed and depressing. Everything felt inevitable, though for a brief shining moment here and there I thought that

Cassie would destroy the company before she died

.  That was the main will she/won't she of the book for me, otherwise I could see it all in front of me, but not in a bad way. It did take me a weirdly long time to realize that

Cassie had reproduced her relationship with her parents in her friends

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I would not have called this magical realism. There's no indication that the black hole is literally, physically there.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Infertility, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Police brutality, Colonisation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

emiliaphrodite's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

🫤

 lots of things were relatable, so i really enjoyed having some of my thoughts put into words.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Excrement and Police brutality

toephia's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Police brutality, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Abortion

Minor: Drug abuse, Vomit, Toxic friendship, and Pandemic/Epidemic

kaymichelle's review

dark sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, and Abortion

Moderate: Police brutality, Fire/Fire injury, and Pandemic/Epidemic

lexim's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Sexual content, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Fatphobia and Police brutality

caseythereader's review

challenging dark funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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

 - RIPE is one of those books that's satire, but only just barely. I work in marketing, and though luckily I've never had this horrific a job, I see elements from the larger field taken to their logical endpoints all over this book.
- I loved the slight fantastical element of the black hole that follows Cassie around. I'm not sure the device got used to its full potential, but it kept the book from being simply a rote recitation of horrors.
- Although I think the black hole plot thread and the dictionary definition framing device didn't quite work as well as intended, we do a love a book where a character gets an ab0rtion simply because she just cannot have a child right now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicide, Police brutality, Medical content, Abortion, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Domestic abuse