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Everyone in This Room Will Someday be Dead by Emily Austin

136 reviews

logsbooklog's review against another edition

dark sad fast-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

2.5

this is a quick, engaging read but good lord is it miserable. it’s uncomfortable and all over the place and the vignettes bounce around like pinball, though i acknowledge a lot of this is on purpose. i found a lot of it bordered on misanthropic and the ending speeds through tying loose ends like a bullet train. i didn’t hate it but i didn’t really like it either.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Lesbophobia, Vomit, and Death

Moderate: Medical trauma, Car accident, Religious bigotry, and Panic attacks/disorders

mpbookreviews's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Alcoholism, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Self harm, Violence, Death, Grief, and Vomit

dannythestreet's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad

• 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

Probably one of the most relatable books I've read
(maybe don't read it if you're feeling particularly anxious or depressed)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Lesbophobia, and Self harm

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Abandonment, Body shaming, and Gaslighting

glitterdeww's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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

Everyone in This Room Will Someday be Dead could very well become one of my top recommended books. This story talks (shocker) about death and our individual relationships with death. But like any extreme... We cannot fully appreciate the magnitude of something like death without concurrently appreciating it's opposite... Life. And THIS, this is what I think this book does so well. In ruminating, almost obsessively, on death and dying, we are pushed into thinking about life, meaning, love and community. 

It's hard to describe just how closely and acutely this book follows the thoughts of a severely depressed person. From Gilda's perception, we see the world through an expansive range of emotions. It is as if the entire spectrum of human feeling is laid out for us through her scattered internal monologue. It is both comforting and extremely uncomfortable, showing the rich dichotomy of what it means to be alive. 

"I can't believe that I'm alive.
I can't believe that I can believe anything." 😭❤️

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Homophobia, Death, Animal death, and Lesbophobia

carrotcow's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Homophobia, Car accident, Lesbophobia, Alcoholism, and Vomit

littlelizzieborden's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Animal death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Stalking, Cursing, Lesbophobia, Terminal illness, Blood, Car accident, Homophobia, and Murder

savmiller's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Mental illness, Dementia, and Car accident

Minor: Vomit and Lesbophobia

paperandkindness's review against another edition

dark sad

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Vomit, Lesbophobia, Grief, Car accident, Animal death, Alcoholism, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, and Homophobia

Minor: Alcohol and Abandonment

readwithserena's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Addiction, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, and Death

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Self harm, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Murder, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Alcoholism, Medical content, Outing, Infidelity, Cursing, Bullying, Vomit, and Death

randeerebecca's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad slow-paced

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

4.5

At first, I didn’t like this book. It’s very slow going for most of it. However, as I got to the end I began to recognize that it’s actually a very good representation of dissociation from anxiety/depression/hopelessness. A good portrait of how mental illness begins to invade someone’s psyche, then isolates them. I appreciated that it was written with the present timeline interspersed with fragments of memories and short moments because it showed how disjointed it can be to cope with feeling meaningless and confused.

The very last page ended on such a light, delightful note too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Self harm, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Animal death, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, Car accident, and Death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury