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clarahooyer's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Child death
Moderate: Cursing, Gaslighting, Abortion, Murder, Mental illness, Grief, Car accident, and Death
Minor: Death of parent, Vomit, Suicide, Abandonment, Infidelity, Sexual content, Infertility, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Miscarriage, and Emotional abuse
laur_astor's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, and Grief
Moderate: Death of parent, Suicide, Abandonment, and Pregnancy
wegs's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, and Child death
hollyyym's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Grief, Abandonment, Child death, Death, Self harm, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Abortion, Suicide, and Infidelity
estherk809's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Abandonment
Moderate: Suicide
tashrifa's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child death, Death, Grief, Alcoholism, Self harm, Blood, Gaslighting, Murder, Abandonment, and Pregnancy
kalynnar's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Abandonment, Child death, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Murder, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Gaslighting, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, Bullying, Car accident, Suicide, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Self harm
lilayylmao's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Child death, Gaslighting, and Grief
Moderate: Suicide and Self harm
Minor: Self harm, Blood, and Abandonment
agrismaryy's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Child death, Grief, and Suicide
Moderate: Child abuse and Abandonment
frozenheartv's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
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No one writes about motherhood and mother-daughter relationship like Ashley Audrain. It took me a while to gather up all of the details together with the ending of the book to really got what they author wanted to tell us. The book was phenomenon. My jaw dropped after I had realized the things, and I had chills down my spine.
To get started, I would say that this book is really "heavy"; not literally, of course, but psychologically heavy. It was not a literal thriller or suspense book either. However, it gripped me from start to end, made me wanted to listen for more. It was written in the first-person point-of-view to make us felt like we were in Blythe's mind. Because of this, I felt more connected to Blythe. I felt her pain, her insecurities, her unstable mind and so on. Throughout the book, the author carefully sprinkled hints here and there for us to really understood the ending. The twist was not hard to guess but it made everything clearer and started to link with each other.
The author succeeded in portraying how trauma can pass on throughout every generations and how hard for the younger generations try to get rid of the toxic cycle.
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Grief, Abandonment, and Gaslighting