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romie_chat's review against another edition
Graphic: Eating disorder and Death
katjayorke's review against another edition
3.0
Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Addiction, Alcohol, Death, Pregnancy, and Sexual content
malihareza_19's review against another edition
1.0
Graphic: Eating disorder and Alcohol
Moderate: Death
islamaunder21's review against another edition
3.5
- I found Dolly Alderton's writing style hugely engaging and hilarious, as well as her beautiful exploration of female friendship and the ways in which she has found more solice and fufillment in the women around her than her romantic and sexual relatio ships with men.
- I will say that, coming from the perspective of someone in her 20s in the throws of single life and recovering heartbreak, I found the book especially uplifting, empowering and comforting.
- However, this book is also imbued with white middle class experience in one of the most expensive cities (London) as Dolly muses over her time in private boarding school, her seemingly stable (albiet boring in her eyes) upbringing, trips away to the Cotswolds or Cornwall and ascent to a hugely successful career. Although their are some hugely moving passages about grief, for the most part it does speak to Dolly's priverlage that much of her biggest turmoil was men and her relationships with them, whilst many 20 something year olds grapple with just being able to get by.
Graphic: Death and Eating disorder
imogenlj's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Cancer, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Drug use, and Mental illness
accam212's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Death
books_withblooms's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Eating disorder
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Cursing, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Alcoholism, Death, and Cancer
miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition
3.0
Like i get that youre kinda saying this isnt life advice cause idk what im doing and no one really does, but also- seems an awful lot like it read as a book of life advice
I didnt like how it was put together: the email(?) letter(?) chapters added nothing for me, neither dod the recipes, and the lists felt annoyingly like she was trying to impart her opinion as factual advice.
The lack of chronology meant the chapters felt anecdotal and meant i didnt really have a connection to any of her friends. There were things that she obviously didnt mean as advice but because of the ordering of chapters got left open.
It didnt feel like she really opened and closed any of the same doors tbh
I feel like what was meant to be informal just became a bit cringey at times.
Not devoid of interesting bits but I definitely dont think it is something that is everyone needs to read in their 20s or whatever
Also i feel like she was like- all of these random stories from when i was black out drunk or obsessed with someone arent what i loved or arent what i am, what i love is what ive learnt from my friends- but then didnt really give us much (especially in detail) of any of the friends apart from Farley,like ok so tell me about that and about how they taight you what you know about love instead of just giving me a cursory page of lists at the end.
‘I do love these stories… but there are quite a lot of them Doll’- yeah… one might say that i actually didnt need to read them all
Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Grief, and Addiction
kafkatattoo's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Cancer, Sexual content, Mental illness, Death, and Eating disorder
abicaro17's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Drug use, Dysphoria, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Cancer, Cursing, Medical trauma, Eating disorder, Acephobia/Arophobia, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Classism, Death, Medical content, Abandonment, Vomit, Sexism, Sexual content, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, and Terminal illness