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shirumoon's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Murder, Alcohol, Death, and Suicide
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Vomit, and Xenophobia
Minor: Sexism, Homophobia, and Toxic relationship
jenniiireads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Suicide and Murder
Moderate: Incest
mx_sunshine's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Murder, Suicide, Drug abuse, Suicide attempt, and Alcoholism
Moderate: Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Vomit
Minor: Incest, Religious bigotry, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Animal death, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Car accident, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Classism, and Cursing
philosopher_kj's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
Graphic: Murder, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Incest, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Misogyny, Vomit, Homophobia, and Sexism
Minor: Animal death
eleasofia's review against another edition
- 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
i usually prefer third-person pov, but this first person pov was so well written, i often even forgot about it. i loved richard as a narrator. it really felt like a friend telling you a long story - drifting off topic occasionally, going into detail for things that might not matter much to anybody but him. even though he is relatively detached as a narrator, it was very clear how he saw and felt about his friends, which made me love the other main characters - at least until it got complicated, by the ending i had mixed feelings, but i suppose that is exactly what it was supposed to be like. either way, all of them are really well fleshed-out unique characters, so even if you don't like them, you can be intrigued with them. who i liked best fluctuated throughout the story, but i think in the end it's richard and francis for me.
the story itself was very compelling. there were some things i figured out before they happened, but generally i was surprised by the major plot points (at least the ones that hadn't been purposely been given away in the beginning). it felt eerily realistic, exciting, fascinating, but at the same time really relatively mundane, bleak, "normal", like this could have happened to anybody.
i'm glad i didn't read the content warnings before reading the book because they definitely contain spoilers, at least in the sense that some things wouldn't be as surprising anymore. some scenes were disturbing, even relatively graphic, but i enjoyed being caught off-guard.
i'm very much looking forward to re-reading the story. i feel like it's one of those books that will be amazing on the second read when you can pick up on little details and foreshadowing that you missed on the first read.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Blood, Suicide, and Murder
Moderate: Homophobia, Violence, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Animal death, Gun violence, Suicide attempt, and Grief
angel_kiiss's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
4.0
An exceptionally interesting book that is paced well up until the end. The third act is slow but ironically rushes in the end.
I did, however, spend the whole book trying to figure out what part of the character of Bunny or the story inspired Mona Awad to write her novel. So far I’ve still made no connection between the two Bunnys to make sense of it. Other than the fact that it’s about to poor kids getting caught up in the lives of their rich peers while at an exclusive university.
Graphic: Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Homophobia, Death, Grief, Blood, Incest, Animal death, Murder, and Drug use
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Suicide
carol16's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Murder, Alcoholism, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, and Incest
Minor: Homophobia, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, and Islamophobia
kallieann819's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Murder, Suicide, and Domestic abuse
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Incest, and Homophobia
lizakg's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Murder, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Incest
Moderate: Homophobia
Minor: Antisemitism
l0veth1ng's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Murder
Moderate: Incest and Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Rape and Outing