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297 reviews

euleau's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny hopeful fast-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

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I am SO glad that I listened to this book! I finally added it to my TBR after seeing it everywhere and being the pick for book clubs. This book is dark, emotional, and hilarious. I loved the honesty and chemistry between the characters. 

It is such a refreshing book to reflect on the last 5 years post pandemic and have characters who are so flawed but still lovable. I think the author did a great job exploring each character. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Infertility, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Sexual content, Vomit

mariposa517's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional funny hopeful fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Drug use, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Vomit, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol

Moderate: Cancer, Sexual content, Excrement, Pregnancy, Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

sjedmonds's review against another edition

3.5

emotional funny sad tense

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I really only liked the last 20% of this one

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Sexual content, Vomit, Alcohol

oriana095's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny hopeful medium-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

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I absolutely loved the writing and the dialogue. The beginning was sad but the rest of the book I found myself laughing quite a bit. It was a very easy read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Infidelity, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent

colleenmcrenick's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-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

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At first I didn't think I would like this book, but it quickly grew on me. There were some wonderful reflections about life, who we think we ought to be, and the life we really want to be living. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy

hcnorris's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Vomit

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

_jean_'s review against another edition

4.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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It was pretty decent but just a standard summer read. I did love the allusions to St. Louis, the author did a masters in creative writing at WashU so that’s fun. A few missing pieces

like the car situation? Also would have liked what happened with Lila/Jim and Phoebe/Gary to be flushed out a bit more. Hated that her husband stalked her back to the hotel and also that he was just like I’m here now. But yeah I liked it, thought the author did a good job writing about Phoebes mental health and not making tile a dramatic thing or unrealistic things leading up to her suicide attempt. But overall I thought it was just a decent beach-read style book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Vomit, Suicide attempt

lesjahn's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Miscarriage, Blood

Moderate: Cursing, Drug use, Suicide attempt, Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Vomit

kate_paras's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-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

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It’s like a mix of the marriage plot and the bell jar but funnier

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Infertility, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic

maimy_santiago99's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

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This is exactly the right book for me to have read right now at this stage of my life.  The things that Phoebe realizes about herself, about how to be herself, are things I need to learn to recognize and do.  It feels weird to call a novel about a woman who goes to a hotel to kill herself and ends up embroiled in a week long wedding extravaganza of strangers and find it inspirational, but it is.  Somehow it is. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility

Moderate: Cancer, Infidelity, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Fire/Fire injury, Pandemic/Epidemic