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Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
There are many graphic depictions of self-harm and abuse. It is a very long, heartbreaking book Readers should definitely check trigger warnings before reading.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body shaming, Confinement, Suicide, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident
Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Car accident, Alcohol
Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting
I would absolutely not recommend this book to anyone with any kind of self-harm, eating disorder, or suicidal history. You will be triggered to hell and back. Skip it, for the sake of your mental health. I'm serious. Skip. It. This book needs every single content warning there is.
If you have ever loved someone who is so severely struggling with their mental health that you fear for their life, the characters in this book will resonate with you. My God will it resonate with you.
However, the book was extremely and unnecessarily graphic and the amount of trauma was also maturely cartoonist, if that makes any sense, and also unnecessary for the story wanting to be told. We also don't need a heaping serving of trauma to tell the story of deep love that defies romantic expectations.
I will say that, despite the many shortcomings of the book, there was enough snippets of something worth saying and a curiosity for what the lives of these men would turn into that I kept wanting to come back to the book.... Until I had about 25% left of the book and I started to lose interest. With such little of the book left, I sludged onward, but the last quarter of the book was poor compared to the rest. This could have probably been easily condensed into a 500 page book had the gruesome descriptions of pain been removed and the ending tightened up.
Overall, I WOULD NOT recommend this book to most people. There are better books that touch on some of the same themes that this one does without further stigmatizing seeking mental health help and glamorizing codependent relationships.
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Car accident
Minor: Cursing, Fatphobia
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Alcohol
Minor: Homophobia, Abandonment