Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Everyone in This Room Will Someday be Dead by Emily Austin

25 reviews

maeverose's review against another edition

This is a book I really should’ve dnfed for the sake of my mental health but for some stupid reason kept reading.

The main character, Gilda, is very mentally I’ll. Some parts of this book are really intense, and if you struggle with death ocd, anxiety, hypochondria, suicidal thoughts or alcoholism I’d be cautious about reading this. Gilda’s panic attacks are described in detail, and they’re very frequent. She also has a full on mental breakdown by the end of the book that is also described in detail and drawn out for a while. It isn’t explicitly stated at any point but she is clearly autistic/audhd coded, and it seems as if she is undiagnosed in the story, she questions why she is the way she is, and definitely doesn’t seem to be aware that she’s autistic. It was difficult reading her experiences, clearly seeing that she’s autistic but with her not knowing and struggling. It was relatable at times, but in an upsetting way more than a nice way. For me, at least. I can see how some readers would enjoy this and feel seen in the main character.

Funnily, like Gilda I feel other people’s emotions pretty strongly, so reading a book like this was probably a bad idea for me. I have similar anxiety and this was triggering for me. I nearly dnfed this several times because of it, and tbh I probably should’ve as it ended up just putting me in a bad mood. I kept reading because I really enjoyed the first half, it was still intense but in a more lighthearted dark humor kind of way (it reminded me of fleabag), but the second half is much more depressing and upsetting.

This book is a very accurate representation of ocd, anxiety, undiagnosed autism and mental illness. If you want that and can handle it, I’d recommend it, just please check content warnings first.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Animal death, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Lesbophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Death, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Eating disorder, Religious bigotry, Homophobia, Murder, Ableism, Self harm, and Suicide

Minor: Abandonment, Cannibalism, Excrement, Mass/school shootings, and Sexual assault

Graphic: Body dysmorphia, hypochondria, death ocd, intrusive thoughts, dissociation Moderate: medical malpractice (kind of) Minor: metaphorical cannibalism

tea_kettle's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Vomit, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Mental illness

Minor: Bullying, Self harm, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Homophobia, Stalking, and Eating disorder

yibit's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense 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

3.0

The plot in the synopsis seems very story driven, but this book lightly brushes on any of those noted plot points. The book is primarily about a young lesbian woman, Gilda, living with anxiety and depression, told through her stream-of-consciousness internal monologue. 

This book didn't land with me. I never fell in love with the main character, and it was hard to sympathize with her. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Eating disorder

quil's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, and Death

Minor: Self harm, Suicide, Car accident, and Eating disorder

floatinthevoid's review against another edition

dark funny sad tense medium-paced

• 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

4.5

I did not expect to shed a tear or two when reading this book. 

I thought this will be a light contemporary book with a sprinkle of dark humour  in it. Oh boy was I wrong. 

I just wanna say to other people who considers reading this, especially for those who have anxiety, the writing style is very chaotic and it might overwhelm you. Please read with caution as there are a lot of panic attacks scene in the story.

But then you'll also get this kind of writing too, which is delightful.  

I bet that baby would be absolutely baffled to hear why she’s enduring this. Imagine someone forced you to wear a miniature wedding gown, dunked you underwater in front of an audience of your loved ones, and then explained that their rationale for doing so was so that when you die your spirit would fly to the clouds. If I were this baby, my first words would be “fuck off.”

I enjoyed this so much tho. This book is so funny and ironic and tragic and isn't that what life is? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Alcohol, Murder, Homophobia, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Lesbophobia, Eating disorder, and Homophobia

mold_munchr's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

the main character is extremely autism/OCD coded and (as someone who has both), I have never felt more seen. I will be bringing this book to therapy to help me better express how I feel lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, and Mental illness

Moderate: Murder, Religious bigotry, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Emotional abuse, Animal death, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Sexual harassment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Car accident, and Gaslighting

skudiklier's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Okay I'm actually obsessed with this book. Wow.

I have anxiety and I related to Gilda a lot while reading it (though she struggles with it way more than I do, and I have a much easier time asking for help). I loved the way this was written, in genuinely every way that could be interpreted. I'm amazed by how relatable and funny this was while also being so dark and existential. I was so drawn in and cared so much about what was going to happen to everyone involved.

Honestly I have absolutely zero complaints about this book. I mean...I wish maybe we'd gotten a glimpse of Eli at the end to see what happened there? But I understand why the author may have wanted to leave some things open-ended, and I'm satisfied with what we did get to see at the end. I can't recommend this book enough.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Car accident, Cursing, and Death

Moderate: Outing, Self harm, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Body horror, Ableism, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Sexism, Terminal illness, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Blood, Bullying, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Transphobia, Child death, Dementia, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Cannibalism, Drug abuse, Rape, Cancer, and Mass/school shootings

major cw for dissociation, depression, and anxiety

rosieposie_5_'s review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

Something about this book made me feel seen - like the author opened me up and wrote my thoughts

I am not very similar to Gilda on a surface level. In fact, I am 20 and agnostic with very supportive parents and siblings. It was the way that Gilda talked about life and death that lined up with thoughts I have had. The way Gilda didn’t want to burden others with her problems and her passive suicidal thoughts were like a smack to the face. 

“I think I am an imposter. Twenty-seven years ago I was a baby. Before that I was a clump of cells. Before that I didn’t exist. How could I be a bookstore clerk, or a Catholic, or a woman, or a person at all?”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Transphobia and Eating disorder

mjwhitlock18's review against another edition

challenging funny reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

I don’t even know what to say about this book. This book is chaotic and realistic, funny and depressingly bleak. It is written as stream of consciousness, following an anxious, catastrophising, directionless, atheist lesbian with intrusive thoughts and existential dread, who searches for therapy and instead accidentally ends up with a job in a Catholic church. Gilda is a multifaceted, complex character, but so many of the other characters are flat and one-dimensional. But I guess given that the story is from her POV and she spends most of the book wrapped up with her thoughts, maybe she simply lacks the awareness to see them as complex. Austin’s portrayal of Gilda’s inner thoughts are very real and relatable for someone with depression/anxiety, but also may be triggering to read for some, just FYI. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Addiction, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Eating disorder, Homophobia, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Transphobia, Cancer, Animal death, and Vomit

lizziaha's review against another edition

sad

3.5

Given the premise of the book, I assumed that this would be a slice of life comedy. I was sorely mistaken. I think I would’ve enjoyed this book more if I had read it instead of listening to it. The exploration of being a mentally ill human was uniquely complex and unflinching, which made this a deeply sad read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

Moderate: Animal death, Car accident, Grief, Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Alcoholism, Religious bigotry, Self harm, and Vomit

Minor: Eating disorder