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I think it's interesting how Rachel makes the VERY good argument that she wants her children to be able to have a relationship with their extended family like she was able to, and she knows they wouldn't have that with his family because she'll never be accepted and therefore neither will their kids. Very reasonable, very understandable. But she gets back together with Nick and they never talk about it? He even says that he doesn't really know how much he wants to be around his family anymore, but even that wouldn't fix the issue because then they would have literally no connection to his family. If that issue doesn't get figured out I'm gonna be sad because the author could have just... not introduced that problem in the first place if he's not gonna resolve it.
Graphic: Cursing, Infidelity, Sexual content
Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug use
I also didn't think Rachel's character was very strong, and she seemed to have a 180 at the end of the book.
The story drop literally less than ten pages from the end seemed super rushed.
I don't know, I didn't like the plot. I liked learning about other parts of the world and Rachel's mom's culture vs the culture of Nick's family and the other super rich families.
But it was too much for too long, my eyes glazed over. I'm sure this would make a great movie because all the long winded descriptions would be condensed down to a frame.
Graphic: Colonisation, Classism
Moderate: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship
Minor: Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Rape, Sexual content
Graphic: Bullying, Classism
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Drug use, Racial slurs, Racism
Graphic: Bullying, Racism, Classism
Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Sexual content
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Racism, Xenophobia
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Grief
Minor: Drug use, Car accident
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Xenophobia, Classism
Moderate: Cursing, Toxic relationship
Minor: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Colonisation, War
A lot of the book was just a bunch of people sitting around and judging others…. And when I say a bunch, I mean a confusing amount of characters and names. To be fair, I don’t think it helped that I listened to the book, but still; so many characters and names.
I actually really liked the ending, and I applaud Rachel for being the badass she is.
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Gaslighting, Classism
Moderate: Child abuse
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Fatphobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Alcohol
Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Racism, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Classism
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Racial slurs
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Infertility, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Antisemitism, Medical content, Kidnapping, Car accident, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail
My main critique all boils down to one pervasive thought I couldn’t shake: “this book was so glaringly written by a man.” In every description of the female characters, to the sexualized POV of the supporting female cast. Those elements were so distracting and strange that they really took me out. The book could have definitely used some major editing.
Besides that, the pacing and structure of the story made absolutely no sense to me. The twists (which do not make sense) are misplaced in the story.
Plus there’s like a whole chapter full of racial/homophobic slurs for some reason…. I’m remain… confused.
Regardless, I think I’m glad I read it?
Graphic: Car accident, Classism
Moderate: Drug use, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia
Graphic: Infidelity, Classism
Moderate: Racial slurs, Sexual content, Toxic relationship
Minor: Drug use, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Kidnapping, Pregnancy