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Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Abandonment
Minor: Cancer, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Death of parent
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting
Minor: Eating disorder
My takeaways:
• Unnecessarily dumb (like DUMBBBB, like it’s not even funny it’s just annoying) and insufferable characters like Alex Twaddle
• Takes every chance it can to remind you it’s set in the UK, like every other page. If there’s one thing I’ll never forget about this book it’s that it’s set in England and everything is very British, so British, so silly quirky British all of the time (I love the UK setting and British men are top tier but come on?????)
• The blatant homophobic comments and themes that are glossed over even when one of them is fairly central to the plot? The main dilemma that requires the “fake boyfriend” trope revolves around the fact that Luc is AND THIS IS QUOTED FROM THE BOOK “the wrong kind of gay” and he must find a partner to help clean up his act and thus become “the right kind of gay” in order to save his job. Like????
• The lack of chemistry. Luc was okay but hard to find appealing or connect with. I understand his caveats but they didn’t make sense enough to be believable that he would be with Oliver. Oliver was the saving grace of the story, I enjoyed him and his personality, unfortunately though he didn’t save the whole story. Needed more development, would’ve rather read from Oliver’s POV tbh!!!
Idk. I kinda skimmed through the last half of the book because I lost interest. I wish Luc and Oliver all the best in the other two books but I will not be reading them. Thank you don’t hate me byeeeee
Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, Alcohol
Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting
Moderate: Cancer, Eating disorder
Minor: Sexual content
Also, Lucien makes him a **bacon sandwich** after they make a point the WHOLE book to clearly say that Oliver doesn’t consume meat for moral/ethical reasons, and Oliver is just like “yeah gimme that bacon” ???? What is happening
Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship
Minor: Infidelity, Abandonment
Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Sexual content
Minor: Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Alcohol
Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Alcohol
Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent