Reviews with content warning for Blood - The Pisces

Can we ever escape our obsessions? How do you choose reality when fantasy is so much more appealing?

Lucy, the titular Pisces, does this thing where she projects narratives onto everyone else in her life. She constructs elaborate fantasies where she is the main character, and then inevitably is crushed by the shame and disappointment when reality does not follow the narrative she chose for it. She is a magnificent unreliable narrator.

The pisces is a book about that process: the way we write the story of other people and how they see us in our heads and then feel blindsided when those narratives are entirely fictional. How do we choose to accept the mundane when the fantasy promised something sublime?

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lavenderpagess's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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lycheejelly's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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roraisabella's review against another edition

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dark sad fast-paced

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

2.75

this book was enjoyable, but i just couldn’t get past how insufferable the main character is. she is terrible and selfish and while that might be the point i don’t know, i just couldn’t enjoy her never-ending monologues. her internalised misogyny is too much. the love scenes were good but not a lot else. don’t read this if suicide themes, animal abuse and addiction trigger you.

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mcribsy13's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

The first hundred pages are good but those last 20 are f*cking worth it!

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voraciousbookshelf's review against another edition

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emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

2.75

It has to be said.

seriously fuck Lucy for what she did to Dominic.

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firstknight's review against another edition

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dark funny lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-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

4.5

A really easy read. Got this done in about three sessions. It's one of those books that's easy to pick up and then not put down for the next hundred pages, since the plot flows at a fast pace and the inner monologue of the protagonist - Lucy - is entertaining even at her most pretentious and unlikeable.
Not usually a fan of romance, modern settings or first-person narrative but can say I really enjoyed this one. Great for light reading if you're not too put off by some of the darker themes. The last third really brought the whole thing together for me.
4.5 stars for really making me think critically about merman sex anatomy.

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