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All Adults Here by Emma Straub

27 reviews

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

hopeful reflective relaxing medium-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

4.75

This was such a joy to read. It was my first book by Ms. Straub, and I can't wait to read more. I felt like everything had such messy love, and that feels really realistic.  I loved the gentle treatment of the young people who were going through their finding-themselves journeys. I want every young person to be surrounded by trusted adults who can help them through the same thing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Pregnancy

Moderate: Bullying and Death of parent

Minor: Drug use, Transphobia, Grief, Abandonment, and Alcohol

amyreh's review

emotional hopeful reflective 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Abortion

Minor: Bullying, Infertility, Miscarriage, Outing, and Gaslighting

darlenechatt's review

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Transphobia

saturnsierra's review

emotional funny reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

On the whole, I enjoyed reading this, but I wish the ending wrapped up some of the other characters plot lines better. I had a lot of questions at the end that weren’t resolved.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Transphobia

lacea's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Abortion, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Transphobia

cimmalex's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I had no idea this book was based in the Hudson Valley, NY and name dropped so many towns and businesses I know (shout out Upstate Films), so that hit close to home, literally. I’m not usually an adult fiction reader, but I liked the cover and the book held my attention pretty much up until the end. I started getting annoyed by the last like 3 or 4 chapters. Like many other reviews have said across the board, I agree that too many “hot button topics” were crammed into this book. I mean I think she mentioned every single one. This is a generational story, so maybe that’s why? But… whew. 

Porter was by far the most annoying character to me, and I think it’s very lazy the cheese maker is named Porter. I just have to get that out there. She is almost 40 years old and thought her high school boyfriend belonged to her and no one else (including his wife) because she “had him first”? What kind of mentality is that? Insane behavior from this one throughout the whole book. Very wild.

Especially the whole relationship with her high school ex that kept reappearing to be fwb even though he was married with kids and another on the way. Her high school ex’s wife coming down on Porter’s neck two chapters before the end of the book was exactly what this character needed though. A swift kick in the ass/someone metaphorically grabbing her by the shoulders and shaking her

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Transphobia, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Dysphoria

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Infertility, Dementia, Abortion, and Outing

beatriks's review against another edition

hopeful lighthearted reflective 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

4.5

I liked this book, it is very well written (a lot of sentences and paragraphes that I highlighted), with lots of wise words. There are quite a bunch of characters that appear around the protagonist, Astrid, and for me, that change of perspective worked well. How everything fell into place and turned out. 

I would recommend not stretching out the reading of this book for too long, otherwise you might forget what happened. 

My favorite characters were Porter and Cecelia.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Death of parent

Minor: Infertility, Abortion, and Gaslighting

faraway_'s review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Infertility, Infidelity, Transphobia, Car accident, and Pregnancy

Minor: Drug use, Abortion, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

hi_its_micah's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

Overall, I enjoyed the structure of this book and the general story. However, it seems like there was a lot thrown into this book. I did listen to this as an audiobook, but at times, it was hard to keep track of what was going on. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Transphobia, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Deadnaming, Infidelity, and Pregnancy

Minor: Outing

siobhanward's review against another edition

lighthearted 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? It's complicated

3.0

 This was a cute read and I liked the idea of it, but like other reviewers, it almost seemed like Straub had a bingo card of all of the current hot issues she could think of and she tried to include as many as possible. This resulted in a ton of chaos in the book, with no topic getting the attention it deserved. I feel like things were either just dropped or explained away as "and then they were happy" which is a huge oversimplification of a lot of these issues. It felt almost like Straub painted herself into a corner with too many challenges and realized she wasn't going to be able to solve them all, so she just kind of made everything end happily ever after. In a YA book this would have been ok but it felt out of place in an adult book.

However, the characters were lovely and the plot was sweet when it wasn't being rushed, so I'd definitely read more from Straub. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Pregnancy

Minor: Pedophilia