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lameura's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Grief, Vomit, Death, Incest, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Rape, Addiction, Drug use, Child abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Fatphobia, Kidnapping, Murder, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Alcohol, and Dysphoria
333jamie's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Also Rebecca!!! The way she was written! She was really remarkably beautiful, so beautiful I had to avert my eyes. / Rebecca was very intimidating to me. / She was so pretty, a miraculous sight in such an ugly place, it surprised me that others weren't pointing and staring. Every passage about her helped me understand Eileen so much more. Wow. Also what a coward. Idc!
Graphic: Sexual violence and Pedophilia
danibrand's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Eating disorder, Abandonment, Incest, Rape, Death of parent, Child abuse, and Body shaming
Moderate: Sexual assault, Stalking, Alcohol, Murder, Gun violence, Alcoholism, and Sexual violence
pages_turned's review
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Atmospheric — that’s the best way to describe this book.
The narration is confessional. Eileen’s account veers between startling self-awareness (this insight comes in hindsight — young Eileen is naive, easily manipulated, desperate and ashamed) and questionable memory.
The reader is dragged alongside Eileen in the beginning half of the book. You exist in her dreary life. You stumble alongside her in drunken desperation, sit with her in her filth, and wince at her bald insecurity.
But the “dark and glittering” world beyond her front door — covered in an unforgiving and unrelenting blanket of snow — is this expectant presence throughout the book. You’re just waiting to find out what forces Eileen out into the cold that final time.
** Spoiler alert **
The deer at the end is the sign of rebirth. Stags shed their antlers every year and they grow back.
Graphic: Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Violence, Incest, Pedophilia, and Rape
Moderate: Excrement, Body shaming, and Vomit
Minor: Injury/Injury detail
spozk's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Murder, Vomit, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault
vbarsi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Child abuse, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse
Moderate: Blood, Gun violence, Fatphobia, Torture, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Vomit, Death of parent, Stalking, and Rape
Minor: Suicidal thoughts
sophiafrances_'s review against another edition
- 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
3.75
Graphic: Rape, Incest, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, and Pedophilia
randisworld's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Rape, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Addiction, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, and Murder
Moderate: Gun violence, Vomit, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship
kangaci's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Child abuse, Racial slurs, Incest, Rape, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Vomit, Racism, and Alcoholism
raisinreads's review against another edition
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Body shaming, Murder, Pedophilia, Death of parent, Addiction, Death, Sexual violence, Violence, Vomit, Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Incest, and Stalking
Minor: Miscarriage