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3.98 AVERAGE
3.98 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
informative
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Grief
Moderate: Alcoholism, Death of parent
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Representation: Lesbian main character, bisexual supporting character, gay side character, lesbian side character, f/f main romance
Single Sentence Review: A beautifully written, heart-wrenching story of Rose, an anorectic, who decides she must get better to help her identical twin sister, Lily, before she, too, falls into the abyss of an eating disorder––the novel is a superb exploration of queerness, the toxicity of diet culture and the unconditional love of twin sisters as it navigates the emotional and mental pitfalls of anorexia and the toll it takes on relationships.
Read my full review on my blog:
Talk Nerdy Book Blog | Thin Girls Review
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Mature Themes:
• Discussion of BDSM relationships (the line between consent of S&M and abuse)
• Detailed sex scenes (including Rose walking in on Lily practicing BDSM)
• Explores toxicity of diet culture: the fine line between dieting and starving yourself
Possible Triggers: Yes
• Anorexia (on-page)
• Bulimia (on-page)
• Physical abuse (on-page and off-page)
• Emotional abuse (on-page and off-page)
— Lily’s boyfriend manipulates her into dieting (read starving herself)
• Bullying (on-page)
• Death as a result of an eating disorder (off-page)
Ending:On road to healing
Single Sentence Review: A beautifully written, heart-wrenching story of Rose, an anorectic, who decides she must get better to help her identical twin sister, Lily, before she, too, falls into the abyss of an eating disorder––the novel is a superb exploration of queerness, the toxicity of diet culture and the unconditional love of twin sisters as it navigates the emotional and mental pitfalls of anorexia and the toll it takes on relationships.
Read my full review on my blog:
Talk Nerdy Book Blog | Thin Girls Review
Follow Me
Blog • Instagram • Goodreads • Facebook • BlogLovin'
Mature Themes:
• Discussion of BDSM relationships (the line between consent of S&M and abuse)
• Detailed sex scenes (including Rose walking in on Lily practicing BDSM)
• Explores toxicity of diet culture: the fine line between dieting and starving yourself
Possible Triggers: Yes
• Anorexia (on-page)
• Bulimia (on-page)
• Physical abuse (on-page and off-page)
• Emotional abuse (on-page and off-page)
— Lily’s boyfriend manipulates her into dieting (read starving herself)
• Bullying (on-page)
• Death as a result of an eating disorder (off-page)
Ending:
dark
emotional
informative
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Now I want to read the story from the other twin’s POV
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Vomit
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Rape, Death of parent
emotional
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder
challenging
dark
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
medium-paced
I think it is often unfair to compare writers to their mentors but this book addresses the characters’ relationships with food with such compassion it is hard not to feel the influence of Roxane Gay.
Lily and Rose are twins whose lives are so inextricably linked when rose stops eating Lily starts eating for them both. Lily becomes the healthy one, always trying to save Rose from herself but when Lily’s new boyfriend begins pushing her to try a fad diet Rose has to come to her sister’s rescue.
The connection between the sisters has a fairytale quality but the novel’s interrogations of thinness, fatness, and diet culture are grounded firmly in reality. Ultimately it is their relationships; whether platonic, romantic, or familial; that save Lily and Rose from their self destructive habits.
This novel is nothing short of revolutionary in the way it discusses women and food establishing Diana Clarke as an essential new voice in feminist literature.
Lily and Rose are twins whose lives are so inextricably linked when rose stops eating Lily starts eating for them both. Lily becomes the healthy one, always trying to save Rose from herself but when Lily’s new boyfriend begins pushing her to try a fad diet Rose has to come to her sister’s rescue.
The connection between the sisters has a fairytale quality but the novel’s interrogations of thinness, fatness, and diet culture are grounded firmly in reality. Ultimately it is their relationships; whether platonic, romantic, or familial; that save Lily and Rose from their self destructive habits.
This novel is nothing short of revolutionary in the way it discusses women and food establishing Diana Clarke as an essential new voice in feminist literature.