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tomnoor's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Mental illness, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual assault, Rape, Death, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Animal death, and Body shaming
laurataylor's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Rape, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Grief, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Bullying, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Abandonment, Death, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content
zerkleoflife's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
***Read the content warnings before reading.***
Graphic: Child abuse, Death of parent, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Rape, Body shaming, and Mental illness
seedsofsunflowers'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
4.5
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Classism, Death, Fatphobia, Vomit, Ableism, Grief, and Body shaming
Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Rape, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Excrement, Sexual violence, Cancer, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Terminal illness, Child death, Stalking, and Physical abuse
kimac's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Mental illness, Stalking, Emotional abuse, and Death
Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Sexual assault, Self harm, Vomit, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Animal cruelty, Child death, Bullying, Murder, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting
hanghuhn's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
3.0
second attempt: let's try the audio book. Again I was annoyed. But the narrator is so good that I gave it a second chance. Still, Eleanor was annoying, her character seemed not likeable. She was judgmental, thought poorly of, for example, fat people. Also, the way she expresses herself, speaks was very strange and yes, annoying.
But as I continued listening, she grew on me. Bit by bit she unsurfaced her past and that explained so much. It explained her behaviour, her thoughts, her opinion of others.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is a surprising book. There is strong character development. She grows from a socially isolated woman who is traumatised by her childhood to a woman with friends, who goes to therapy to finally work on the things she carried for so long. But one thing that bothers me is that she doesn't discuss her problem with alcohol with her therapist. I think the author should have included that as well. Because in the book it seems as if you just need to stop drinking and that's it. Eleanor even had an alcoholic drink shortly after her breakdown. I don't know much about alcoholism and recovery. But the way it's described doesn't feel realistic. After her breakdown, she doesn't drink for, I don't know, a week? two? Then she has one drink after a very intense therapy session and than ... nothing? And Raymond has a drink when they met and she isn't affected by that?
All in all the book turned out to be good. But the alcoholism part felt, as I said, not right, and it should have been addressed more/better.
But I am glad to have given the book a second chance.
Graphic: Alcoholism
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Child death, Child abuse, and Death of parent
Minor: Rape
melizto's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Suicide, Alcohol, Rape, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Suicide attempt, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, and Child abuse
lynxpardinus's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Vomit, Gaslighting, and Grief
Moderate: Physical abuse, Rape, Cancer, Murder, Body shaming, Forced institutionalization, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Abandonment, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Fatphobia
Minor: Bullying, Excrement, Incest, Classism, and Animal cruelty
The schizophrenia/psychosis warning is just in case, as a possible interpretation of a certain twist. I'm not entirely sure this is intentionally the case, and either way I don't think it's accurate.haleyisamess's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, and Alcoholism
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death, Death of parent, Rape, Body shaming, and Sexual assault
max63815'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
5.0
There was a lot of fatphobia and body shaming which is eventually addressed but still quite excessive.
Graphic: Fatphobia and Body shaming