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4.41 AVERAGE
4.41 AVERAGE
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
challenging
dark
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sad
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Abortion
Moderate: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse
‘I was rescued from my years of addiction, but ever since, the shadow of the old longing still returns faintly if I have to have a blood test, or if I pass a pharmacy window. It will never disappear completely for as long as I live.’
It was crazy how her life and marriage to Ebbe, albeit the quarrels and his flaws, quickly turned into a nightmare from the moment she met Carl. I was gobsmacked when she agreed to have a child with Carl just so she can access more of the drugs he was supplying her.
Carl is a demon in a human’s body, to think she lasted five years with him while he continued to feed into her addiction to the point where she weighed 30kg!!! and none of her children (except for Helle) knew her anymore. He purposefully isolated them so she had no one to depend on except for him! And later, before she gets admitted to rehab, Carl admits to her that he had his doubts about her (fake) earache and DESPITE THAT he still found a doctor willing to operate on her, which resulted in her losing hearing in one ear…
Don’t get me started on Viggo F. because their entire ‘relationship’ filled me with so much rage and he sucked dick and balls!
I’m rambling. I’m so glad I read this trilogy, the way she wrote about her life was captivating and drew me in as if I were living in copenhagen with her.
The third book “Dependency” was heartbreaking to read through. From her marriages to her spiral into addiction, and the last paragraph of the book hit me like a truck, knowing the author Tove would later die of an overdose.
It was crazy how her life and marriage to Ebbe, albeit the quarrels and his flaws, quickly turned into a nightmare from the moment she met Carl. I was gobsmacked when she agreed to have a child with Carl just so she can access more of the drugs he was supplying her.
Carl is a demon in a human’s body, to think she lasted five years with him while he continued to feed into her addiction to the point where she weighed 30kg!!! and none of her children (except for Helle) knew her anymore. He purposefully isolated them so she had no one to depend on except for him! And later, before she gets admitted to rehab, Carl admits to her that he had his doubts about her (fake) earache and DESPITE THAT he still found a doctor willing to operate on her, which resulted in her losing hearing in one ear…
Don’t get me started on Viggo F. because their entire ‘relationship’ filled me with so much rage and he sucked dick and balls!
I’m rambling. I’m so glad I read this trilogy, the way she wrote about her life was captivating and drew me in as if I were living in copenhagen with her.
The third book “Dependency” was heartbreaking to read through. From her marriages to her spiral into addiction, and the last paragraph of the book hit me like a truck, knowing the author Tove would later die of an overdose.
The conclusion to the Copenhagen trilogy felt anything but conclusive. I loved watching Tove break free and live the life of an artist that she’s yearned for all this time. The book ends unceremoniously and I wish we had learned more about Tove’s life beyond where we leave her.
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug abuse
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Medical content
Moderate: Confinement, Mental illness, Vomit, Gaslighting
Minor: Alcohol
dark
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sad
tense
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”Kaadan itselleni kolme lasillista normaalin kahden sijaan, ja kun lääkkeen veltostuttava vaikutus leviää minuun, ajattelen että on kevät, olen vielä nuori eikä yksikään mies ole rakastunut minuun.”
Aikuisuus on upea Ditlevsenin omaelämänkerrallisen Kööpenhamina-trilogian huipennus. Teos käsittelee herkästi ja rehellisesti päähenkilön rakkauselämää, aborttia sekä addiktoitumista lääkkeisiin. Kirja on valtavan kiihkeä ja nopeatempoinen, ja se tiivistää jotain oleellista Ditlevsenin levottomuudesta. Henkilökohtainen ja jopa hieman ahdistava lukukokemus.
Aikuisuus on upea Ditlevsenin omaelämänkerrallisen Kööpenhamina-trilogian huipennus. Teos käsittelee herkästi ja rehellisesti päähenkilön rakkauselämää, aborttia sekä addiktoitumista lääkkeisiin. Kirja on valtavan kiihkeä ja nopeatempoinen, ja se tiivistää jotain oleellista Ditlevsenin levottomuudesta. Henkilökohtainen ja jopa hieman ahdistava lukukokemus.