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It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood

19 reviews

booksanna's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

5.0

Very trippy and well-written. This helped me understand how it feels to be in a poor mental state. I hope I can connect and understand people’s struggles with this new perspective. The art in the book is chaotic, emotional and bone-chilling. Truly a roller coaster ride that I would go onto again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Mental illness

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, and Drug use

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Vomit

mabellene's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

Within the first two pages, I was hooked. This is such a dark, emotional, real graphic novel. This definitely isn’t a feel good read, but I loved that about it. It dark times, I don’t want to read something where everything magically works out and everything gets better at the end. I want something heavy and gritty, and that’s exactly what this book gives you. The potato scene in particular was so painfully relatable. 

I’m not sure enjoyed is the right word to use, but I am really glad to have read this and that it exists.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Blood, Animal death, Drug use, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Alcohol

Minor: Vomit

nettles's review

dark funny

4.5

A really unique memoir but not one I can safely recommend to my friends.

I'm interested in how different art styles depict different ways the author sees the world with time. Conversations with her younger selves, search for meaning as an artist. A lot was explored and it was funny but SO dark

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Animal death

Moderate: Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, and Vomit

Minor: Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Pandemic/Epidemic, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Animal cruelty

moodreaderhan's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced

4.0

*** Thank you NetGalley and Image Comics for the arc in exchange for an honest review! I’m incredibly grateful! ***

Interesting. Shocking. Relatable. Dark. Funny. Brilliant!

Stylistically: this is one of the best graphic novels I’d had the pleasure of reading. Content-wise: I feel seen. 

Reviewing this fully won’t even do it justice. Just read it!

TW: suicidal thoughts, depression, mental illness, drugs, alcohol, bullying, swearing, grief, vomit, toxic relationship

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Mental illness

Moderate: Drug abuse, Alcohol, Grief, Vomit, Bullying, Cursing, and Toxic relationship

cartwheelapple's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Self harm

qarina's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Vomit

ong's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

5.0

starting off this year strong, i guess. maybe it was a bad idea to read this now. some parts felt like my 2023 though. thank you zoe.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Vomit

tree_branch's review

dark lighthearted slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Drug use, Animal death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Sexual content and Religious bigotry

clarabooksit's review

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

As someone who has depression, this book just made sense to me. As all of the people at conventions told Thorogood, this book is super “relatable.”

It’s messy, dark and often challenging as Thorogood’s mental illness sometimes makes her act—or not act—in selfish and self-destructive ways. The way her art bounced from thought to thought, from page to page and the desperate desire to stop thinking, to start over, completely captured how deeply pervasive depression is.

And it’s clear how talented of an artist she is as she utilized a variety of styles to convey her different mental states. I particularly loved the creepy monster that represents her depression and the weird, cartoony heads attached to realistic bodies.

Honestly, a lot of it is ugly in a way that perfectly mirrors the ugliness of mental illness: the self-doubt, the inability to do the things you know you need to do—that you should do—and the fear of never getting out of the vicious cycle.

Where the book didn’t always work for me is in the overall “plot.” The need for a story felt shoehorned into an otherwise solid representation of a stupid, awful, annoying thing that some of our brains do to us. The book is very self-reflexive and mostly self-aware as Thorogood often addresses the fact that she had no idea what to do with or how to write this book, which makes for a—again—relatable book, but not always a great one.

I would definitely recommend this to anyone who has depression or anxiety. You will feel seen. Having said that, I can imagine someone who has never dealt with mental illness would probably not get and not enjoy this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Alcohol, Ableism, Drug use, Bullying, and Violence

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Vomit, Animal cruelty, and Gun violence

toonyballoony's review

dark reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Mental illness

Minor: Vomit, Homophobia, and Drug use