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helfire124's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Suicide, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death of parent, Death, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Alcohol, Body horror, Sexual harassment, Ableism, Animal death, Child abuse, Dementia, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship
martinj's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Medical content, Child abuse, Death, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Blood, Grief, and Suicide
Minor: Alcoholism
e11en's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Pregnancy, Death, and Death of parent
ashleylynn's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Death of parent, Infidelity, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Death
ruthjenkins's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, and Death of parent
Minor: Sexism, Pregnancy, Suicide, and Mental illness
ains_reads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Death and Pregnancy
bella_cavicchi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Medical content, Death, Pregnancy, and Suicide
Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Abandonment
Minor: Sexual harassment, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Violence
emzireads's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Pregnancy, Death of parent, and Chronic illness
f_amiliar_happine_ss's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
After sulking in a reading slump for MONTHS, I have finally found a book that entertained me ~and~ left me wanting to read more, now I'm motivated enough to take on my ambitious tbr.
This novel describes the lives of three women in a family of fighters, set mostly in Canada with a quick travel to America, written as a letter from an eight-ish year old daughter to her alcoholic father who recently left his family. Although the perspective is that of a child's, this read carried such an emotional weight at times before the mood picks up with hysterical humor.
I mostly sprinted through this read, completing a chapter or two before taking a quick break, then coming right back because I just had to know why Swiv's father left, what happened with her mother just months previously, what Gord's gender is or if they are delivered safely; so many questions developed as I flew through this book which were promptly answered.
Highly recommend to all types of readers, definitely going to look into more of this authors work :)
Moderate: Pregnancy and Mental illness
Minor: Alcoholism, Infidelity, and Suicide
emudds's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
quotes i likeeeeeed:
--lonely fights are the worst, she said. she'd rather lose a lonely fight. she'd rather join a losing team than win a lonely fight.
--know you are loved. know you are strong. remember these words. 'they can kill me, but they can't scare me.'
--if you lose your mind can you find your mind again? of course you can. that's life!
--people like to separate his plays into tragedies and comedies... aren't they all one and the same? so, king lear fails to connect with what's important in life and loses his mind.. who hasn't? there's comedy in that, don't kid yourself.
--to be alive means full body contact with the absurd. still, we can be happy, even poor old sisyphus could figure out that much.
--we need tragedy, which is the need to love and the need... not just the need, the imperative, the human imperative... to experience joy. to find joy and to create joy. all through the night. the fight night. (wow guys he said it he said the line)
--grandma told me fighting can be making peace. she said sometimes we move forward by looking back and sometimes the onward can be knowing when to stop.
Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Infidelity, Medical content, and Pregnancy