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thetinytrashcan's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Gore
Moderate: Drug use
Minor: Suicide and Car accident
my_forest_library's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Drug use, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Car accident
Minor: Abortion and Alcohol
jas_kv's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, and Murder
Moderate: Drug use, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, Car accident, Death of parent, and Alcohol
nefariousbee'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
4.0
Graphic: Body horror, Drug use, Vomit, and Car accident
Moderate: Death, Sexual content, and Sexual violence
Minor: Addiction, Bullying, Fatphobia, Racism, Stalking, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting
steffi_23's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Minor: Body horror and Car accident
cerilouisereads's review
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Body horror and Death
Moderate: Suicide, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gaslighting
Minor: Cursing and Pregnancy
quinwithonen's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Homophobia, Vomit, Car accident, Death of parent, and Lesbophobia
reviewsandreadathons's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug use, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Death of parent
Moderate: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, and Car accident
mar's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, and Death
Moderate: Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, Vomit, and Grief
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, Car accident, Death of parent, and Pregnancy
thesincoucher's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Things that I really loved about Plain Bad Heroines:
- The narrator: I love when the narrator is a separate character and this one gave a lot of flavor to the book. This was the best way to tell this story, without a doubt. I'm a huge fan of footnotes on novels so they added more brownie points for me.
- This is the story of a book inside a book and very much aware of that and I love that fully awareness. I loved that Danforth knows her characters and uses them to maximum effect to tell this story.
- The story is the sapphic story of my dreams involving a boarding school and a horror movie and the people who are trapped there. This kind of books make me so happy because they were not there when I was growing up (or at least, not in easy reach) and now I have so many to choose from.
- There were moments deliciously atmospheric. Danforth knows how to write gothic horror well.
- This book was chunky but it did very much feel like it needed to be. It tells a whole story and when you finish it, you feel satisfied with it. I cannot ask for more.
I have the Miseducation of Cameron Post but now I'm putting it higher in my reading pile.
Graphic: Car accident
Moderate: Confinement, Mental illness, Suicide, and Forced institutionalization