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lordslag's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
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
5.0
The first half of the book is alot of inner monologue and nothing happening and it was really hard for me to go through, actually I thought I was going to hate this book BUT The second half makes it so worth it Omg I cried so hard my head hurts. I also read the acknowledgments after which isn’t something I usually do Please please please read this if you’re thinking about it omg
Content Warnings
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Grief, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Vomit, Alcohol, and Sexual content
Minor: Gun violence and Car accident
mapleleaf_rag's review
emotional
sad
fast-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
5.0
Was not expecting it to be this good. Cried.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Stalking, Grief, and Domestic abuse
reneelizabeth_'s review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
medium-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
4.5
Pizza Girl was a devastating, gut-wrenchingly vulnerable exploration of human experience and human connection. After finding out she is pregnant at 18, the protagonist's - whom we only find out her name at the end of the novel - whole identity revolves around her being a pregnant Pizza Girl. As she contemplates the hopelessness of her life and situation, she is begged by a desperate mother to deliver a specialty Pizza to her home.
This relationship starts an infatuation and longing for connection that Pizza Girl becomes obsessed with. To which she later reflects:
"I would’ve found something else to lose myself in—if you were pushed off a cliff, you’d grab hold of anything resembling safety."
Jean Kyoung Frazier creates such interesting and complex characters and winds them together in a way that makes the reader reflect on societal behaviours. Her writing was simple but so beautiful and quite a few of her lines made my gut wrench, like:
"I wondered what animals lived under the shadows of my bones. I hoped they were animals of nobility—lions and eagles and horses with long manes—and not what I fearedvultures and wolves and drooling hyenas."
An honestly devastating, yet beautiful read.
This relationship starts an infatuation and longing for connection that Pizza Girl becomes obsessed with. To which she later reflects:
Jean Kyoung Frazier creates such interesting and complex characters and winds them together in a way that makes the reader reflect on societal behaviours. Her writing was simple but so beautiful and quite a few of her lines made my gut wrench, like:
An honestly devastating, yet beautiful read.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pregnancy, Addiction, Alcohol, and Alcoholism
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Miscarriage
ryanlee's review
dark
funny
sad
fast-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
3.5
This book is beautifully written and compulsively readable. Plus, I really felt Jane’s malaise and aimlessness and grief, and I admire the author’s ability to convey Jane’s complicated, mixed-up desires for Jenny. There’s so much to love about this book! I get all the rave reviews.
With that said, I don’t feel like book has a resolution, and it leaves readers dangling. I don’t mean that the characters’ lives have to be neat and clean, their futures rosy with possibility. But when a dark and sudden twist(a gun, with all the Chekovian implications that has) is introduced late in the third act, it ratchets up the stakes and deepens the book’s darkness considerably. As I reader, I needed more than a short epilogue to bring me down from that episode.
If you’re in for a dark read—darker even than the premise of a pregnant, fledgling alcoholic teenager who’s grieving the death of her alcoholic father and becomes a stalker—I highly recommend it. The book is funny, and despite the content, it does feel “light” in some ways, at least until the end. But I’ve seen it described as fun and light-hearted and a romp—and those, it certainly is not.
With that said, I don’t feel like book has a resolution, and it leaves readers dangling. I don’t mean that the characters’ lives have to be neat and clean, their futures rosy with possibility. But when a dark and sudden twist
If you’re in for a dark read—darker even than the premise of a pregnant, fledgling alcoholic teenager who’s grieving the death of her alcoholic father and becomes a stalker—I highly recommend it. The book is funny, and despite the content, it does feel “light” in some ways, at least until the end. But I’ve seen it described as fun and light-hearted and a romp—and those, it certainly is not.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Grief, Pregnancy, and Vomit
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt
cortnereads's review
dark
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This book took me on a wild ride I didn't know that I needed and I loved every minute of it.
"Pizza girl" is pregnant and unhappy. She finds herself falling for a customer and it gets out of hand. Her mom and boyfriend, Billy, worry about her every night. She sneaks off into her dead Dad's shed to drink. She doesn't have any friends. She seemingly hates her life until Jenny.
"..if you were pushed off a cliff, you'd grab hold of anything resembling safety."
I read this in three days and if it wouldn't have been for responsibilities, I would have devoured this in one sitting. Read this book.
"Pizza girl" is pregnant and unhappy. She finds herself falling for a customer and it gets out of hand. Her mom and boyfriend, Billy, worry about her every night. She sneaks off into her dead Dad's shed to drink. She doesn't have any friends. She seemingly hates her life until Jenny.
"..if you were pushed off a cliff, you'd grab hold of anything resembling safety."
I read this in three days and if it wouldn't have been for responsibilities, I would have devoured this in one sitting. Read this book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, and Stalking
Minor: Body shaming and Gun violence
sarahv's review
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Stalking, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Suicide attempt and Infidelity
Minor: Gun violence
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