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drbws's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Sexual assault
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail
amberinpieces's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Moderate: Cursing, Alcohol, and Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Sexual content, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Sexual assault, and Vomit
bdingz's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Moderate: Medical content
Minor: Sexual assault, Acephobia/Arophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Lesbophobia
Mild acephobia but no arophobia. An elderly person experiences a fall and a minor injury and there are a couple of relatively short scenes in hospital in the last quarter of the book.greenlivingaudioworm's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Alcohol, Rape, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, and Mental illness
thebookpaiges's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Alcoholism, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Alcohol, and Antisemitism
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Cursing
Minor: Rape
taylorsevalia's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Cursing
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Gaslighting, and Alcoholism
Minor: Antisemitism
rileyswan's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Sexual assault, Death, Alcohol, Sexual content, and Cursing
imstephtacular's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Moderate: Alcohol and Sexual content
Minor: Medical content, Cursing, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Colonisation, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Antisemitism, Acephobia/Arophobia, Car accident, and Toxic relationship
purplepenning's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.5
Moderate: Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, and Sexual assault
Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Car accident, and Panic attacks/disorders
ezwolf's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Overall I’m pretty neutral about this book. It was fine? I can’t say I’d recommend it, but I wouldn’t stop anyone from reading it either. It was just…there. A book.
On the positives, in a weird way, there’s really good discussion of sexual assault, especially considering it’s between sapphic characters (not the main couple) and there’s a lack of acknowledgement that sexual assault is something that can occur in the queer community as well.
On the negatives. I will give any book with queer Jewish characters a chance (especially when they’re sapphic), as I feel it’s a highly underrepresented area. But I also cannot stand plots when Jewish characters hate or dislike Jewish holidays but like all or parts of Christmas. It drives me nuts. Why bother writing a Jewish character if you’re just going to have them talk poorly about Hanukkah or sing praises of Christmas when they’re Jewish. Enough non-Jews out there think Christmas is a universal holiday that everyone celebrates and enjoys, I think the plot point can be let go.
Thank you to Net Galley for making this book available in exchange for an honest review!
Moderate: Sexual content and Sexual assault
Minor: Alcohol and Injury/Injury detail