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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

4 reviews

cecilialau_'s review against another edition

5.0

The book surprised me in how it just flowed so effortlessly. It was a really enjoyable read for the writing style, the humour, while being very brutal at times.

I loved that the friendship between Eleanor and Raymond remained just that. At least I appreciate that it’s up for interpretation in the end, instead of it being an obvious and direct choice by the author (which would have felt inauthentic in my opinion as a means to just put a nice bow on the story) 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Body shaming, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Physical abuse, Grief, and Gaslighting

mallory10100's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing sad medium-paced

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

4.75

i loved the character development and the discussions of mental health in this story. certainly didn’t expect abuse to play such a big part. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Death, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Medical content, Addiction, Suicide, Gaslighting, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Vomit

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Body horror, Grief, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, and Violence

Minor: Gore, Confinement, Cursing, Drug use, Incest, Eating disorder, and Excrement

shelbyleigh_'s review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Body shaming, and Stalking

Moderate: Vomit

fedoranonymous's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.25

This book is billed as comedy. Fucking where? Is it the parts where Eleanor is horribly rude to service workers? Because that's not funny, it's infuriating. It's written to be infuriating. I have no idea where Penguin gets off billing this as a comedy.

It was a necessary book for me though. It deals with abuse, the cycles thereof, and healing. I cried, and thanked the book for making me cry. I hate this book as much as I love it.

It makes me feel a whole lot, so it must be good. It mostly made me feel like throwing the book at the wall, though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Eating disorder

Minor: Death of parent, Gore, Car accident, Child death, Death, Murder, and Vomit

So the main plot twist is

Eleanor's mother died trying to kill Eleanor and successfully killing Eleanor's baby sister Maryanne, and her phone calls are hallucinations.

Such a funny comedy Penguin! Eleanor is slowly revealed to have more and more self esteem and self abuse issues as the book goes on, to the point that it should be funny but is just sad. Please exercise caution when reading.