Reviews tagging 'Vomit'

Normale mensen by Sally Rooney

50 reviews

annchmn's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I found Marianne’s family situation so unresolved and like a plot device. I really disliked Marianne’s character resolution, as well as her depiction as a frail and beautiful person descending into darkness … I found it especially jarring every time the author flat out wrote a description of what she was wearing and how she looked (especially how she just had to mention how much thinner and thinner Marianne was becoming) instead of being more subtle.

It was an interesting look l the way Marianne and Connell both navigated school coming from different backgrounds, but the rest irked me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Violence, Bullying, Classism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Sexual assault and Vomit

lunar_witch's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Torture, Addiction, Alcohol, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Grief, Abortion, Alcoholism, Bullying, Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Physical abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Vomit, Blood, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

quixie's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Blood, Bullying, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, Abortion, Sexual violence, and Panic attacks/disorders

oceanic_rabbit's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Physical abuse

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Vomit

bludgeoned_by_hail's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

This style of over-simplified prose is hard to get right but this book absolutely nails it. The skeletal writing  feels clear and deliberate instead of lazy, and offers a clean backdrop for a moving and devastating coming of age story and its millions of moving parts (popularity, class, education, sex, mental illness, relationships with friends, family and partners).
And still most of all it's a love story. A very beautiful one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Eating disorder, Grief, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Classism, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Alcohol, Body shaming, Infidelity, Suicide, Vomit, Racism, and Pregnancy

samcanuel's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

The title is pretty much self explanatory. I can’t tell to what extent I enjoyed this book, but it certainly made me think a lot. Check content warnings for sure!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Sexual assault, Violence, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Mental illness, and Suicide

Minor: Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, and Death of parent

tkibbee17's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Self harm, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Vomit, Sexual content, Abandonment, Suicide, and Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

seventy7's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.75

The characters don’t know how to communicate effectively, BUT, it was great nonetheless

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Mental illness, Death, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Vomit, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Abortion and Alcohol

Can be really frustrating

elishahdavis's review against another edition

2.0

okay, first, this book is very triggering. for like the first half it’s vaguely depressing, but then...
i usually don’t check content warnings because i find that i can handle a lot of it fine, and even if i had checked them, i honestly would’ve read it anyways. but i urge you, please check the content warnings and take them very seriously. also the list storygraph has when you first look is incredibly insufficient. it has the vast majority of the content warnings on their full list of them. so just be aware of that.

the ending was a relief, but i was still very uncomfortable when they mentioned certain parts of their relationship dynamic. the very ending, as in like the last page was good. she seemed stable, and it seemed right, especially considering their unhealthy and extreme co-dependence. i just— the way i felt reading this book? i never want to feel that again. i felt sick and awful and i can’t even describe it. it was very well written, and, surprisingly, i  liked the whole no quotation marks thing. i just felt like ive been falsely advertised to. how can this be someone’s favorite book? how could you recommend this to people that you like? i don’t get it. i think me and sally rooney are over, just because if her other books are like this one i will not be able to handle them. anyways i really do not know how to rate this. i saw some review that said after they were done reading they just thought “why? what was the point of that?” and it clicked for me. that’s exactly how i feel. i feel hurt and burdened in the worst possible way, wondering “why? that wasn’t worth it”. that’s the best way to summarize what i think of this book.

now off to read some ya romcom because this book is actually triggering me into depression, and i mean that literally, unfortunately.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Body shaming, Sexism, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, and Suicide

Minor: Death of parent, Misogyny, and Vomit

taysbooktalk's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

It took a while to get used to no quotations around conversations. But, after about two chapters it’s easier. This book is perfectly titled. I’ve never read a book that was so weirdly normal. It made me smile and shake my head. It’s middle of the road for me. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Suicide, Vomit, Abortion, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt