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scytheria'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
3.75
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Child death, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting
Minor: Dementia
kalynnar'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? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Murder, Pregnancy, and Abandonment
Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Gaslighting
lilayylmao's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Child death, Grief, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Self harm and Suicide
Minor: Self harm, Blood, and Abandonment
krush's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicide, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting
merbears's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Grief, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Self harm
Minor: Suicide
frozenheartv'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? It's complicated
4.5
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No one writes about motherhood and mother-daughter relationship like Ashley Audrain. It took me a while to gather up all of the details together with the ending of the book to really got what they author wanted to tell us. The book was phenomenon. My jaw dropped after I had realized the things, and I had chills down my spine.
To get started, I would say that this book is really "heavy"; not literally, of course, but psychologically heavy. It was not a literal thriller or suspense book either. However, it gripped me from start to end, made me wanted to listen for more. It was written in the first-person point-of-view to make us felt like we were in Blythe's mind. Because of this, I felt more connected to Blythe. I felt her pain, her insecurities, her unstable mind and so on. Throughout the book, the author carefully sprinkled hints here and there for us to really understood the ending. The twist was not hard to guess but it made everything clearer and started to link with each other.
The author succeeded in portraying how trauma can pass on throughout every generations and how hard for the younger generations try to get rid of the toxic cycle.
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Grief, Gaslighting, and Abandonment
kennedymartin's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Child death, Grief, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Infidelity and Stalking
Minor: Addiction, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Blood, Pregnancy, and Alcohol
_chelseachelsea's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Suicide, Dementia, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, and Gaslighting
Minor: Miscarriage
ekaramanov's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Child death and Grief
Moderate: Death, Car accident, and Gaslighting
emhansen's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Suicide, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, and Gaslighting