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dark
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
slow-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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Child death, Death
challenging
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is a hard book for me to review. There are things about this book that hit far too close to home that make me not like it because it is too real. There are sentences in this book that are so stunning that I just read them over and over and was amazed that marks on a page could so completely encapsulate a moment. Then there were other parts of the book that felt like cop out. Overall, this is still a great book for a woman of a certain age, especially who does not have her feet firmly planted in the monogamous hetero world. Also, shout out to a non-binary character whose storyline is not about being non-binary! Love that!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Pregnancy
Moderate: Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content, Medical content, Medical trauma
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content, Excrement
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content, Grief, Pregnancy
Moderate: Child death
Not the book for me. Weird sexual awakening that is too descriptive and very hard to relate too. Main character is very hard to like
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
If there was a book to make me even less inclined to live in LA, it is this one. It is full of the most self-entitled, conniving, and unlikeable characters I’ve ever encountered between the pages - minus the child who was actually very cute and well written.
I do agree that this was well written and I can also understand that the characters being unlikeable and completely self-obsessed was the whole point - but that doesn’t make that point make any more sense. It doesn’t make the hours it took to read this book any more worthwhile. In fact, it makes me regret ever devoting a second to this drivel.
A fundamental flaw of this book is the cheating narrative and particularly the hypocritical self-exceptionalism of it. The main character gets away with it because, well, she is the main character. It isn’t a compelling case for me and it is also completely unconvincing as she was the most unlikeable person I have read.
Again, yes that’s the point - but also her unlikeableness bled into the other characters and, far from having a diverse cast in this book like it attempted, all the characters spoke with the same voice.
If you can’t already tell, I hated this novel. I don’t think it needed to be written and I especially don’t think it should be lauded. Maybe you m just not cool enough for it but if that is the case then god I’m glad I have nothing in common with any of the characters in this godforsaken novel.
I do agree that this was well written and I can also understand that the characters being unlikeable and completely self-obsessed was the whole point - but that doesn’t make that point make any more sense. It doesn’t make the hours it took to read this book any more worthwhile. In fact, it makes me regret ever devoting a second to this drivel.
A fundamental flaw of this book is the cheating narrative and particularly the hypocritical self-exceptionalism of it. The main character gets away with it because, well, she is the main character. It isn’t a compelling case for me and it is also completely unconvincing as she was the most unlikeable person I have read.
Again, yes that’s the point - but also her unlikeableness bled into the other characters and, far from having a diverse cast in this book like it attempted, all the characters spoke with the same voice.
If you can’t already tell, I hated this novel. I don’t think it needed to be written and I especially don’t think it should be lauded. Maybe you m just not cool enough for it but if that is the case then god I’m glad I have nothing in common with any of the characters in this godforsaken novel.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicide, Medical content
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content, Medical trauma
adventurous
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicide, Grief, Pregnancy