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Een klein leven by Hanya Yanagihara

127 reviews

eleyasolyn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Stalking, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

swynne's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Devastating and addicting. I’ve never felt so attached to a book and it’s characters. This will be one I reread and recommend for years to come.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit and Stalking

ashs_ephemera's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Ableism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Stalking, and Car accident

Minor: Vomit

miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

<<<SPOILERS>>>
first off totally 100% respect anyone who hated this
i feel like i would have if i hadnt skim read a lot of the bits of jude hating himself
A lot of the time it seemed like Yanagihara had found cool metaphors for jude hating himself and was just excited to use them
but there was also some relatable stuff (right??? other people thought that too right???) like 'He had never done it before and so he didnt know how sad and slow and difficult it was to end a friendship' OOF that was the bit that made me cry the most, as well of some other bits about like friendships and stuff and wanting to help someone/talk to them about something but not and being stressed to cause you love them and want to keep them safe but you dont want to cross their barriers :'(
I didnt really sob? like i knew jude was gonna die before i even met him and suspect willem for about 150 pgs before
did shed a couple tears at harold and julia listening to judes cd and harold talking to the painting of Willem

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Acephobia/Arophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

valkosbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.25

Do not read this book! I don’t see value or a message. It is just everything bad that could happen to a person, happening to a person. Basically trauma porn and it never stops. Trauma being portrayed doesn’t make something „deep“ or good in any way. 

My best advise to everybody who is still going to read this book, is to stop when you find it makes you sad. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

erin_forgie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I have cried for probably a total of 2 hours while reading this book. And im going to have to write this review tomorrow because i physically cant think about anything without crying.

In part I (lispenard street) i was instantly hooked, i thought that as this book was quite thick that it would be challenging to get into but it was easy to pick up. My only complaint in the begginging was trying to decipher who was talking in each chapter of that section. As the book went on, I knew when it was JB talking and so on. The way that Yanigahara introduced and told you about characters is exceptional, i felt i knew these characters for my whole life so when something bad happened to them i felt like something bad had happened to me.

For the whole book you are waiting for Jude to die, wether it be suicide or medical reasons, so when

Willem died

my gut was wrenched. Seeing the way that jude experienced

grief was heart breaking, especially as it was Willem who died and he relied on Willem for so many things

. I feel like

malcom and sophies death

was over shadowed by

Willems

. Its not that i didnt think that

willems death

was over explained, i just wish that we could feel a bit of

grief for malcom and sophie

. Maybe if there was a chapter that was in JBs perspective then you would feel a bit more about

malcom and sophie

It has now been two months since I read this book and I think about it on a daily basis. The thing that stays in my brain is how much trauma Jude had to go through, and how he continually got up and kept on going. The fact that JB ends up as a

drug addict

and was the only one of the friend group

who is alive at the end of the book

really breaks my heart, and how what he did to Jude made him never forgive him.


The parts that i found the saddest were:

When jude felt the need to apologise to everyone (harold, julia, willem, jb etc) after he had been emotionally, sexually, physically and mentally abused by Caleb

Obviously,

Willems death, as it was very unexpected. I felt like my best friend for my whole life had also died

seeing the way that Jude coped (or didnt) with willems death. Like the way he bought a cuishon the height of willem to put in his bed at night time. Watching his films. He bought boxes of willems scent. He kept Lantern house, the bedside table, the exact way that willem had left

jude finding the cabinet of stuff about him in the lantern house, that willem had kept

harold begging jude to keep going on with his life after willem died, the promise. Even when jude threw the plate against the wall, Harold still continued to love jude and hope that he would continue living.

harold finding out that jude died, and the way that he did it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

nereides's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

lucychen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Hauntingly beautiful and seriously messed up. I loved the characters and the way the author writes makes them seem so real and human. However, definitely wouldn't recommend to anyone just because of how horrific some of the events that happen and I think I included about half of the content warnings? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

leahkyraah's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Beautifully devastating. This book will crush your heart to pieces with each unnecessary apology or

swipe of a razor blade

yet it is still heartwarmingly radiant of love at some parts . It is masterfully written and immersive although slow paced. Please check content warnings before reading. This book has honestly changed my life 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Abandonment

goose_friends's review against another edition

i have a lot of feelings about this book that i'm still parsing through. i don't think i can rate it. these characters will stay with me forever, but i will surely never read another book by her. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail