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Graphic: Cursing, Gun violence, Sexual content
Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Misogyny, Racism, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol
Minor: Drug use, Racial slurs, Medical content
Graphic: Drug use, Gun violence, Sexism, Sexual content, Colonisation, Dysphoria
Moderate: Mental illness, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting
Minor: Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Forced institutionalization
Moderate: Animal death, Biphobia, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Classism
Minor: Genocide, Racial slurs, Slavery, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Stalking
Graphic: Death, Gun violence
Moderate: Misogyny, Racism, Cannibalism, Murder
Minor: Genocide, War
Graphic: Cursing, Death
Minor: Drug use, Misogyny, Racism, Cannibalism
Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Blood, Cannibalism, Alcohol, Colonisation, Classism
As the book continues, the vignettes of life become more complicated and more palpable and suddenly many questions you had are answered and many questions you didn't have are discovered.
It's been awhile since I've felt this connection with a book that doesn't have romance as the main genre in how we think of the genre today. I am so out of practice with these genres (literally fiction/fantasy/sci-fi/spy thrillers) that I was worried I would not be able to get into this book. But it had enough of everything to cross genres that it both fit in everything and nothing.
It made me laugh, it made my heart ache, it had social commentary that I was not expecting. But I enjoyed every moment of it.
Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual content, Grief, Colonisation
Minor: Animal death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Murder
Maybe it's just because I don't read this genre often, but I found the first two-thirds so hard to get into. There are only 10 chapters (plus a few pages before each that give an account from Graham's perspective), and they're LONG, which made it feel like it was taking forever to get through. Sometimes it got hard to follow plot-wise, but that's only partly because of the long chapters and mostly because I'm not a sci-fi girlie.
That being said, I really liked the characters--especially Graham and Maggie--though I found the narrator kind of felt a bit like an unreliable narrator at times (though maybe that was the point?). And I was genuinely surprised by a few of the plot twists at the end!
TLDR: I didn't dislike it, but it's not something I'll reread. Chapters were too long, but really liked the characters.
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence
Moderate: Racism, Grief, Cannibalism
Minor: Misogyny, War, Injury/Injury detail
I enjoyed the I book so much I consumed it in a single sitting however it wasn’t quite a 5 star read for me. It felt like it was trying to do too many things- fish out of water comedy, thriller, time travel paradox. forbidden romance- and as a result I felt like I didn’t get enough of any of them.
I am interested to see what Bradley writes next
4/5
Minor: Drug use, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Colonisation