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Graphic: Miscarriage, Vomit
Moderate: Cancer, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic
Each person has their flaws but that makes these characters human and relatable. I enjoyed seeing how these characters interacted throughout the story. I loved how Phoebe was this total stranger but everyone felt more comfortable telling her everything than to actually talk to their friends and family. It shows how we get caught up in our masks and don't want people to think differently of us if we told them the truth.
This is a great book to add to your TBR but there are a lot of topics that can be triggering for some readers. The author did a wonderful job with these topics but they can still be hard for someone. These characters are human and have human experiences.
Moderate: Cancer, Death, Drug use, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol, Pandemic/Epidemic
Phoebe picks the Cornwall Inn as her happy place. She's there the weekend of Lila's wedding, not as a guest but for a very particular reason.
This book deals with a lot of sensitive topics and I can't recall if there were TWs, but some of these include
While at the inn, her path crosses with Lila, a frantic bride who wants everything to be perfect during her wedding week. They keep bumping into one another, and Lila is able to be honest with Phoebe in a way that she can't seem to be with the other wedding people.
In fact, it's not just Lila that finds a comfort level with Phoebe; she becomes the sounding board for quite a number of questions. Including Gary, the groom she doesn't know is the groom when she propositions him, Jim who is the dead wife's brother, and Patricia, Lila's day-drinking mother.
This book did definitely make me think about what so many people go through on a daily basis: the constant pretending and putting on a facade to fit the needs of the situation.
Graphic: Infertility, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt
Moderate: Cancer, Pandemic/Epidemic
Graphic: Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Pandemic/Epidemic
Graphic: Animal death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, Pandemic/Epidemic
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Cancer, Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Alcohol
Minor: Drug use, Blood, Vomit, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic
Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Death, Drug use, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol, Pandemic/Epidemic
Read if you enjoy books that are kind of depressing and kind of hopeful and full of messy people. Skip if you don't enjoy books with unlikeable characters. Also mind the trigger warnings on this one.
Graphic: Cancer, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Death, Terminal illness
Minor: Drug use, Blood, Vomit, Dementia, Fire/Fire injury, Classism
Graphic: Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Grief, Suicide attempt
Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, Pregnancy, Alcohol
Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic
Throughout the first few chapters, I wanted to smack the protagonist upside the head, but her life already did that. Repeatedly.
Minor: Animal death, Infertility, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Vomit, Grief, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Pandemic/Epidemic