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challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
I found this book very hard to get into. The first half was slow, and felt quite stilted, so I just kept putting the book diwn, but the second half caught my interest more, and I read it within a couple of days. The biggest one for me, although the story is all about Clio's suicide, is that I cried at Eileen's chapter at the end, and not at all before that. The short look into Eileen's addled mind as she fails to understand Clio is dead, is heartbreaking.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexism and Suicide
Moderate: Drug abuse, Sexual assault, and Alcoholism
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