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riri78's review against another edition
lighthearted
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Pregnancy, Alcoholism, and Child abuse
Minor: Death of parent and Gun violence
gerose04's review against another edition
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
There wasn’t really a point in time while I was reading this book that I found myself entertained by what I was reading. I didn’t really connect with the characters or the story, and it felt like the characters weren’t really fleshed out.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism and Pregnancy
jennf1's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-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
4.25
Amazing book, really goes in depth about difficult topics. The relationship between pizza girl & Jenny is unlikely which makes it especially captivating. Was interesting to see an out of the ordinary pizza delivery turn into something much darker and obsessive.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide, Alcoholism, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Mental illness and Death of parent
Minor: Physical abuse
reneelizabeth_'s review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Pizza Girl was a devastating, gut-wrenchingly vulnerable exploration of human experience and human connection. After finding out she is pregnant at 18, the protagonist's - whom we only find out her name at the end of the novel - whole identity revolves around her being a pregnant Pizza Girl. As she contemplates the hopelessness of her life and situation, she is begged by a desperate mother to deliver a specialty Pizza to her home.
This relationship starts an infatuation and longing for connection that Pizza Girl becomes obsessed with. To which she later reflects:
"I would’ve found something else to lose myself in—if you were pushed off a cliff, you’d grab hold of anything resembling safety."
Jean Kyoung Frazier creates such interesting and complex characters and winds them together in a way that makes the reader reflect on societal behaviours. Her writing was simple but so beautiful and quite a few of her lines made my gut wrench, like:
"I wondered what animals lived under the shadows of my bones. I hoped they were animals of nobility—lions and eagles and horses with long manes—and not what I fearedvultures and wolves and drooling hyenas."
An honestly devastating, yet beautiful read.
This relationship starts an infatuation and longing for connection that Pizza Girl becomes obsessed with. To which she later reflects:
Jean Kyoung Frazier creates such interesting and complex characters and winds them together in a way that makes the reader reflect on societal behaviours. Her writing was simple but so beautiful and quite a few of her lines made my gut wrench, like:
An honestly devastating, yet beautiful read.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pregnancy, Addiction, Alcohol, and Alcoholism
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Miscarriage
kittkat's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-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
4.0
Mir ist grad aufgefallen, dass ich das Buch nie bewertet habe und es ist mir auch jetzt im Nachhinein schwergefallen…
Unsere Hauptfigur ist jung, schwanger und verzweifelt… Die Geschehnisse kurz zusammenzufassen ist eigentlich fast unmöglich, aber wenn man das Buch lesen will, ist es eigentlich besser nichts zu wissen.
Sie tut eine Menge Sachen, die man nicht tun sollte, vor allem wenn man schwanger ist und einen sehr supportiven, liebenswürdigen Freund hat.
Man kann nicht mal als Leser nachvollziehen, warum sie so ist, wie sie ist (man denkt sich teilweise „ja gut sie ist einfach bisschen verwirrt und deprimiert“ aber das macht‘s nicht besser…).
Aber gleichzeitig ist sie auch irgendwie relatable🧐. Wenn sie mal ohne wirklichen Grund alle verflucht und hasst, das kennen wir doch alle 🙃.
Nach und nach merkt man auch, dass sie ihr Leben immer weniger im Griff hat und schon halber am Durchdrehen ist. Ich sag nur 📉📉📉🕳️…
Das Buch ist auch sehr… interessant geschrieben. So viele widerliche Metaphern und Vergleiche habe ich noch nie in einem Buch gelesen. Das ganze hat sich angefühlt wie eine lange Kurzgeschichte. Äußerst seltsam, aber unterhaltsam 🤷♀️ Würde ich nicht unbedingt für Zwischendurch empfehlen, die Themen sind schon sehr hart
Unsere Hauptfigur ist jung, schwanger und verzweifelt… Die Geschehnisse kurz zusammenzufassen ist eigentlich fast unmöglich, aber wenn man das Buch lesen will, ist es eigentlich besser nichts zu wissen.
Sie tut eine Menge Sachen, die man nicht tun sollte, vor allem wenn man schwanger ist und einen sehr supportiven, liebenswürdigen Freund hat.
Man kann nicht mal als Leser nachvollziehen, warum sie so ist, wie sie ist (man denkt sich teilweise „ja gut sie ist einfach bisschen verwirrt und deprimiert“ aber das macht‘s nicht besser…).
Aber gleichzeitig ist sie auch irgendwie relatable🧐. Wenn sie mal ohne wirklichen Grund alle verflucht und hasst, das kennen wir doch alle 🙃.
Nach und nach merkt man auch, dass sie ihr Leben immer weniger im Griff hat und schon halber am Durchdrehen ist. Ich sag nur 📉📉📉🕳️…
Das Buch ist auch sehr… interessant geschrieben. So viele widerliche Metaphern und Vergleiche habe ich noch nie in einem Buch gelesen. Das ganze hat sich angefühlt wie eine lange Kurzgeschichte. Äußerst seltsam, aber unterhaltsam 🤷♀️ Würde ich nicht unbedingt für Zwischendurch empfehlen, die Themen sind schon sehr hart
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcohol, Infidelity, Stalking, Pregnancy, and Alcoholism
Moderate: Addiction, Vomit, and Gun violence
Minor: Death of parent and Murder
booksandbabble's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-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
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Alcoholism
Moderate: Stalking, Vomit, and Death of parent
Minor: Gun violence
devynreadsnovels's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pregnancy
Moderate: Stalking and Death of parent
Minor: Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Cursing, and Alcohol
mariebouthi's review against another edition
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Abandonment, Grief, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Miscarriage, and Suicidal thoughts
erebus53'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? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
CW: firearm, drinking while pregnant, drunk driving, child neglect
This book was one that I picked up as it was a nominee for a book of the month in one of my book clubs. I have found it quite difficult to get my head around to write a coherent review. This may be my traumatised Autistic brain doing a Nope, or it may just be that I found the whole narrative a little incoherent.
The main character is a half-Korean(?) 18 year old, fresh out of school and newly pregnant. She is aimless and unfocused and clearly lonely. Despite having a handsome and popular partner who is driven to train up, get a good job and support her and the baby, she is .. just not feeling it. It's probably because she's way more into women than men but has never really stopped to identify what she wants from her life, and she feels pretty stuck with her options.
This emotional and messed up girl becomes obsessed with a middle aged woman who orders pizza from the place she works. Both women are clearly not quite coping with life and each seem to feel like they are rescuing the other, though it feels like they would be a lot better off if they focused on saving themselves.
As a fairly risk averse caregiver and rule-follower, I'm anxious all through this book as the main character leans hard into being her alcoholic father reborn despite having a baby on board. I can't quite wrap my head around the why of some of this woman's decisions.. or maybe they are more impulses than decisions, because there seems to be very little logic engaged with. The whole hot mess is quite unsettling. It does make me stop and think a bit about how I was when I was an odd and dysregulated teen, but I don't think I ever, even in my worst meltdowns, got quite this close to a psychotic break.
I dunno that I got anything good from this book.. but it was certainly.. something.
This book was one that I picked up as it was a nominee for a book of the month in one of my book clubs. I have found it quite difficult to get my head around to write a coherent review. This may be my traumatised Autistic brain doing a Nope, or it may just be that I found the whole narrative a little incoherent.
The main character is a half-Korean(?) 18 year old, fresh out of school and newly pregnant. She is aimless and unfocused and clearly lonely. Despite having a handsome and popular partner who is driven to train up, get a good job and support her and the baby, she is .. just not feeling it. It's probably because she's way more into women than men but has never really stopped to identify what she wants from her life, and she feels pretty stuck with her options.
This emotional and messed up girl becomes obsessed with a middle aged woman who orders pizza from the place she works. Both women are clearly not quite coping with life and each seem to feel like they are rescuing the other, though it feels like they would be a lot better off if they focused on saving themselves.
As a fairly risk averse caregiver and rule-follower, I'm anxious all through this book as the main character leans hard into being her alcoholic father reborn despite having a baby on board. I can't quite wrap my head around the why of some of this woman's decisions.. or maybe they are more impulses than decisions, because there seems to be very little logic engaged with. The whole hot mess is quite unsettling. It does make me stop and think a bit about how I was when I was an odd and dysregulated teen, but I don't think I ever, even in my worst meltdowns, got quite this close to a psychotic break.
I dunno that I got anything good from this book.. but it was certainly.. something.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Death of parent, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Blood, Gun violence, Mental illness, and Pregnancy
kelseyburnell's review against another edition
emotional
funny
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Pregnancy