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Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Outing, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Classism
Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Violence, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Eating disorder, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment
I actually like mystery-thrillers as a genre because I enjoy the suspense and putting the pieces of the mystery together, but I feel like they are often quite cynical in their portrayal of characters and the world in general, so I avoid them for that reason. Much of this book is just about how awful and powerful rich people (mostly men) are. I am well aware that the world is full of corruption and greed at large and small scale. I just want to read a summer camp murder mystery to get a little creepy thrill and maybe feel clever for figuring out the crime before the reveal. I did figure one of the cases out pretty early, but it was more depressing than satisfying. The actual ending to everything is a bit of a head-scratcher.
Some character perspectives were harder to read than others. Alice and Louise make some awful decisions, Alice out of dull acquiescence and Louise it seems because the plot demands it. Tracy's chapters are like a painful concentration of the worst parts of being a 13 year old girl. Even for chapters from characters that are a little more reasonable, like Judyta, everything around them still has to be seeped in misogyny, bigotry, and classism.
Saskia Maarleveld is always a great audiobook narrator. It would have been cool though to have different narrators for all the perspectives.
Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Grief
Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Misogyny, Alcohol, Classism
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Mental illness, Grief
Moderate: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Drug use, Rape, Sexual content
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Grief
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content
Minor: Bullying, Rape, Sexual assault
Graphic: Alcohol
Moderate: Drug use, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Blood
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Confinement, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Murder, Colonisation
Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Lesbophobia
Graphic: Child death, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Murder
Graphic: Child death, Drug abuse
Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Pregnancy, Classism
Minor: Adult/minor relationship