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brashcandicoot's review against another edition
dark
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Violence, Alcohol, Stalking, and Animal death
jahoffie's review
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Would not read again, will be donating the book. I'm feeling quite disturbed following reading it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infertility, Animal cruelty, and Animal death
Moderate: Stalking
marywahlmeierbracciano's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
There are lots of really interesting themes woven into this short novel by the inimitable Laura Sims. The narrator is a poetry professor who is incredibly bitter about her infertility and the consequent dissolution of her marriage. Surrounded by the invasiveness of motherhood, she becomes increasingly obsessed with her neighbor—a famous actress—and the seemingly idealistic life she leads with husband and children in tow. Does she want to know her, be her, or keep her? Looker is a novel about personhood as performance with phenomenal narration by Katherine Fenton, for whose performance I’d listen to nearly anything.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infertility
Moderate: Sexual content, Animal death, and Stalking
imallergictoavocad0s's review
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
It was a very strange book but it wasn’t bad. It was a bit underwhelming but otherwise it was fine
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infertility and Stalking
Moderate: Mental illness, Cursing, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Toxic friendship
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