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Some of the time jumps took me out of the story. Right as I was getting into the groove, the next chapter would be in a different point in time, and that made me disengage a bit. Some slight finagling of the order of chapters might’ve helped my reading experience.
Overall super strong read! Def check content warnings on this one
Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Dysphoria
Graphic: Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse
Moderate: Sexual content, Suicide, Transphobia, Pregnancy
Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Graphic: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Grief, Pregnancy, Classism
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Fatphobia, Suicide, Blood, Stalking, Car accident, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Outing, Abandonment, Dysphoria
Graphic: Transphobia
Moderate: Physical abuse, Suicide, Suicide attempt
i definitely still reccomend this book to people, especially those who are queer and poly. just be prepared to feel a lot of emotions, and to be faced with things you thought only you experienced written down in a book.
Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Outing
Moderate: Abortion
Minor: Abortion
Graphic: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Dysphoria
Moderate: Cursing, Deadnaming, Miscarriage, Racism, Abortion, Murder, Outing
Graphic: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Grief, Abortion, Pregnancy, Outing, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Dysphoria
Graphic: Infidelity, Miscarriage, Sexual content
Moderate: Physical abuse, Suicide, Abortion
After finishing the novel, I feel blank, but I know that it has inspired me to think about myself in old and new ways. I’ve both related to and hated the main characters, and in a way this may be the starting point for me to less abstractly think about how I want to or don’t want to relate to raising kids in a queer way.
The constant jumping back and forth between past and present didn’t work too well for me.
Graphic: Physical abuse, Suicide, Transphobia, Dysphoria
Graphic: Cursing, Deadnaming, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Grief, Outing, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Dysphoria
Moderate: Drug use, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Lesbophobia