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Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Incest
Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Stalking, Abortion, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Minor: Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Incest, Racism, Excrement, Religious bigotry, War, Classism
Graphic: Body horror, Sexual assault, Cannibalism
Moderate: Child death, Transphobia
Minor: Body shaming
Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gore, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Classism
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic
I cant really get into everything I am thinking about this, I really wish I could because I had a lot of thoughts while reading this. Overall, there were a lot of chapters and stories I found actually didnt have a lot to say, or rather got too caught in themselves to say what I thought they might wanted to say. Sometimes I noticed words contradicting the message of a piece, chapters that could really underline a point well are kind of muddled with a bad choice of descriptions, if that makes any sense.
Overall I would say if you scare easily, if you arent up to reading about extremely upsetting topics, this novel is not for you. But i found the premise sort of fascinating, it reveals a lot about humanities real nature in a similar way that movies like Saw do. I would say if you enjoy the Saw franchise you might enjoy the main plot of this, it pushes characters to their absolute limit and makes them deal with the consequences amongs themselves. Interesting to see how far people could go, given the circumstances.
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, War
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Self harm, Sexual assault, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail
So, obviously this is kind of a gross book. That aside, I did have trouble getting into it for like the first 2/3rds. This wasn't because of the gross stuff...it was more because I thought it was so stupid. People don't work like this, logic doesn't work like this, the world doesn't work like this. I got hung up on wondering whether Chuck P actually believed this is how things are.
This was exasperated by the fact that there are like 16 main characters, and I found their voices and personalities pretty indistinguishable. It felt like Chuck P was using these puppets to make the same stupid points over and over.
But the last 1/3rd of the book, imo, made his kafka-adjacent logic more obviously purposeful. It helped that the themes of haunting, storytelling, and performance were spelled out for dumdums like me. I loved the ending of this book.
That being said, even though I was tempted to rate this 4 stars, I went with 3.75 because I am fresh off this novel and worried that l was being biased by a spectacular ending tacked onto a so-so book.
Also I hated the poetry. Gd, did I hate the poetry.
This isn't a boring book, by any means. I just found it frustrating in the beginning. I did think the
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail