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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

44 reviews

jude_rose's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

I read this book almost as a favor to my friend, I genuinely thought I'd like it because I tend to like triggering books (I'm a gluten for punishment) This book goes through the life of four friends from their 20s to their 50s, the main character Jude has childhood trauma that dictates his life. This book is suppose to be about friendship and growth (I guess??) This book was just obnoxious. The characters weren't likable, and all have the author's voice. The author tells more than shows and will ramble on for 50 pages about the same thing yet give us nothing about long awaited events such as

when Jude and Willem finally get together, and then when Willem dies

I really hated this book. I genuinely don't even want to give it a review.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Trafficking, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Abandonment, Addiction, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Car accident, Racial slurs, and Racism

There's probably more triggers than I could mention.

maritreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, and Violence

bell5a_xox's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

bxnn13's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Vomit

waynethelibrarian's review against another edition

This novel falls into a pattern of repetitive trauma and triggers that slightly escalate at each occurrence to the point they become unbelievable. I was buddy reading this book with my boyfriend. After he completed the book before me and we discussed up to the point I had reached, I realized by his description most of my qualms with the story up to this point only proceed to become more pronounced as the novel continues. I would HIGHLY caution  anyone from picking up this book unless you are equipped to deal with the sheer quantity of trauma this novel dumps on you. I’d advise looking through the content warnings and taking them seriously. If I had to give an overall rating, I’d say it warrants a 2/5. My qualms with the plot and characters doesn’t fully overshadow Hanya Yanagihara’s beautiful writing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, and Vomit

nykky's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Self harm, Gore, Violence, Car accident, Death, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Body shaming, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Grief, Biphobia, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Torture, and Suicidal thoughts

reader_in_the_meadow's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• 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? Yes

5.0

The 2015 novel 'A Little Life' written by Hanya Yanagihara tells the story of four college friends, Jude, Willem, Malcolm and JB, and how their friendships and relationships evolve over the course of their lives. The book consists of seven parts, with all of them being parted into three chaoters, except the seveth part which only has one chapter. That brings us to a total of 19 chapters within seven parts.

The plot revolves mainly around Jude, the main character of the story, who is such a broken person, having experienced so many horrors in his childhood and teen years. Since their isn't more special going on, I'd say that this book is mainly character-driven. 
As the reader we get continually told of the characters live, often switching the point of view and or the time setting via retrospects. By also occassionally changing from third to first person, we get even better insight of the feelings of the characters.

The cast of characters is very diverse. There is LGBTQ+ rep, disabled rep and BIPOC rep. As I am not disabled nor a person of color myself, I will only say, that the representation of LGBTQ+ individuals was very well executed and there were many sides of that coin shown.
I have to say that the characters were also very different from one another and every one was developed very precise and I had fun reading about them and their lives, because they were really interesting designed.

The writing was lovely and simple to read in my opinion. Although very wordsy there weren't any words I didn't know. I loved that the author used much time to describe anything into details which made it very easy to build up the atmosphere. 

I liked that the autor made it as clear as possible about what you as reader should feel and conveyed that perfectly.

A thing I didn't like that much was that at some points the book was very sluggish and I really had to push myself to get through those parts.

In conclusion, I can definitely say that I enjoyed this book very much and it even made me shed some tears. which doesn't happen that often while reading. But I really advice anyone wnating to read this book to chek the content warnings because there are definitely a lot! But I can still recommend it to anyone who has the emotional capability to read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcohol, Biphobia, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Transphobia, Violence, and Vomit

mrsdalloway's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Dysphoria, Gaslighting, Outing, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Torture, Abandonment, Car accident, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Blood, Body shaming, Vomit, Body horror, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Gore, and Medical trauma

Minor: Child death and Lesbophobia

sentiaracha's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense slow-paced

• 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Ableism, Domestic abuse, and Torture

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Death of parent, Vomit, Transphobia, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Gaslighting, Grief, Excrement, Drug abuse, and Death

Minor: Cancer, Dementia, and Fatphobia

buckys_plum's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• 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

i had not known sadness and pain since before that book
hardest 2 weeks of my life

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Cancer, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Rape, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Vomit, and Violence