Reviews

So Happy For You by Celia Laskey

jgrady93's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

lillybookland's review against another edition

4.0

It was a strange start but I enjoyed this book the further I got into it, it's beautifully written too

kaitlinthern's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

mandareads222's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Cursing, Kidnapping, Confinement, Animal death, and Murder

Moderate: Mass/school shootings, Vomit, Death of parent, Excrement, Violence, Medical content, and Death

Minor: Gun violence, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Infertility, and Infidelity

mbs76's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

rachaelwho's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Gosh. Parts of this were so, so good. And parts of it were a huge mess-- over-explained, on-the-nose in a way that didn't seem arch or intentional, overwrought. You could see the wires in a bad way, especially with the unrealistic oversharing body/toilet stuff that she clearly REALLY wanted to work in, but I was kinda ready to forgive that bc the overall story was fun and clever. But then the last three or so chapters were a real disappointment. I think this book was maybe doing too much and it got away from her. I hope her next one is tighter, she can write and is really creative! I wanted to like the whole book as much as I liked most of the beginning, even the first 2/3 maybe, and it bummed me out to cool on it in the end.
Also, for all its handholding, I'm not sure the book managed to say "patriarchy" a single time, which beggars belief-- both bc Robin would absoLUTELY say it and bc it's clearly on the author's mind and she is so very not above beating a dead horse.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gaslighting, Abortion, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Kidnapping, Death, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Mass/school shootings, Racism, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Blood

Minor: Vomit and Abandonment

johannanina's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

• 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? It's complicated

4.0

jessielentini's review against another edition

2.0

To call this electrifying is a stretch. I contemplated not finishing it more than once because the beginning is SLOW. Things don’t get interesting until you’re more than halfway through the book and in my opinion, the beginning was mostly unnecessary lead up about the main characters past… only half of which is really relevant to the ending of the book. Wouldn’t recommend simply because of that, though to the authors credit, I did find the ending to be shocking.

the_bookish_hungarian's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No

2.0

justjanice's review against another edition

1.5

dnf at 50% bc i literally don’t care abt any of the characters