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Everyone in This Room Will Someday be Dead by Emily Austin

420 reviews

shannan1773's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Homophobia

jeanaquinlan's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

5.0

This book was at times deeply uncomfortable, but I think that’s what the author was going for. It sparked thoughts about how we can do so much better as a society when it comes to people facing mental illnesses.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Homophobia and Religious bigotry

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

b00kbug's review against another edition

reflective sad slow-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

1.0

listen okay i fully have anxiety and ocd (which gilda must have given all her intrusive thoughts) and i thought this was just sad and boring and annoying mostly. not shade to you emily austin i just need books with less unsympathetic and annoying main characters. the ending was nice im glad they’re still together i was worried about that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Homophobia and Self harm

Minor: Vomit

0ceanna's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

This book dug into the anxious parts of my brain and ripped out the intrusive thoughts, the paranoia, the overthinking, and put them into the main character, Gilda. I couldn’t put this down. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Stalking, Murder, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

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

arisyes's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Grief

rideauriverreads's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Confinement, Homophobia, Medical content, and Vomit