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Rouge by Mona Awad

34 reviews

danimacuk's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abandonment, Gore, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Sexual content, Bullying, Cursing, Racism, Alcohol, and Cultural appropriation

glassflowrr's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Another absolute masterpiece from Mona Awad. I love how dreamy and confusing it feels at times, and how well I'm able to feel Mirabelle's almost hypnotized state through the prose. The climax had me biting my nails and crying. Awad could write a book about a sentient shampoo bottle and I'd love it. It is definitely a challenging read if you aren't used to Awad's fever dream prose but I highly recommend it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Animal death

Moderate: Racism and Alcohol

Minor: Body horror, Gore, Classism, Blood, and Body shaming

elizabeth_lepore's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Racism, and Body shaming

_scvvter's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

In these early stages of my reading journey, I always knew I wanted to read Awad's work. Something about her stood out to me. And when I saw I could rent her newest novel from my library, I immediately jumped at the chance.

Then I hate to wait more than 6 months for it to get to me because over 100 people in my city were ahead of me. When I finally got this, I was thinking "this better have been worth the wait.

And MY GOD WAS IT. I absolutely love this book. Awad was able to easily get me to sympathise with every character, even the ones with smaller roles. Her writing shoved me right into the story and had me waiting to get back to it any chance I could get. It was beautiful, heart-wrenching, and suspenseful.

The one thing I can say about this that isn't positive is that this doesn't feel like a horror novel at all.

literally the only part I found scary was toward the end and that was like 1% of the novel.

I would say if you're looking for a real horror story, I wouldn't pick this up.

In the end, what I great start to my reading of 2024 and it makes me have high hopes for all of Awad's other novels!

Final Score: 10/10

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Gore

withlivjones's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

Oh. My. God. I haven’t read a book as good as this in a long time. Awad takes the best parts of all her previous novels and combines them in this book. Beautiful prose writing that makes you feel like you’re losing your mind just like the protagonist, and a really emotional discussion of grief and mother-daughter relationships that left me in bits. This book will live rent-free in my head for a long time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, and Grief

Moderate: Racism

drownedsewerrat's review against another edition

Tom Cruise subplot was gross. Also why do we have to keep relisting the skincare routine just leave it in a note somewhere at the top of the book. Kept throwing new subplots in without making progress on literally any of the other ones already happening. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Addiction, Grief, and Pedophilia

Minor: Racism

quotecj's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Violence, Body shaming, Death, and Body horror

Moderate: Racism

aliyachaudhry's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-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

need to read mona awad's review of top gun: maverick

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Bullying, Blood, Body shaming, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Racism

bdingz's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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

This one took me longer to finish because the depiction of body dysmorphia, especially at the beginning, hit me really hard. 

Mona Awad writes like a fever dream every time and I love her for it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Grief

Moderate: Racism and Body shaming

Minor: Alcohol, Blood, and Violence

Graphic CW for body dysmorphia

samanthaleereads's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Toxic friendship, and Grief

Moderate: Racism, Religious bigotry, and Sexual content

Minor: Sexual harassment and Blood