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challenging
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I enjoyed this book for its main nuanced, sometimes surprising, main characters, and some lovely phrasing. Even though this may not appear funny to most people, I marked it such because there were some lines and turns of phrases that I found really clever that had me laugh out loud in surprise. Two narrators voicing two very different characters about a man they both know in very, very different ways who is a little bit of cipher. 80s AIDS era is a central plot point, bouncing to present day between the two narrators. AIDS specifically is not one of the content warning categories, so explicitly, those are what the epidemic/pandemic and terminal illness graphic content warnings I gave it refer to.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Mental illness, Death, Mass/school shootings, Outing, Classism, Violence, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Bullying, Grief, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Homophobia
Minor: Fatphobia, Pandemic/Epidemic, Infidelity, Incest, and Suicide
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