Reviews with content warning for Chronic illness - All's Well

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All's Well by Mona Awad

164 reviews

lavieenrose's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

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imagemaps's review against another edition

4.25

mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is my third Mona Awad book and they all have a very similar plot, however I never get tired of it. Her characters live in a nightmare and are then lured into a similarly nightmarish world by a group of mysterious people. But the world they offer the MC provides an escape, even though they know theres something evil about it. It's a plot she resuses a lot but it's always wonderfully exectuted.

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carolinebl's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I didn’t expect to like All’s Well more than Bunny, but I can definitely see how Awad’s writing has developed. I thought the novel was brilliant, especially with the context from reading All’s Well That Ends Well in preparation. Awad’s style entails some hazy scenes,

and quite a rapud ending,

but I was generally enraptured by Miranda’s journey in All’s Well.

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caseythereader's review against another edition

4.25

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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cameron_esten's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I read this in one sitting and literally could not put it down—I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. The best kind of fever dream!

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jamelynreads25's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

A Shakespeare play within a Snakespeare play, a meditation on chronic pain and grief, a masterpiece of magical realism. I'm not even sure how to categorize this one.

Miranda (a clever Shakespeare reference in itself), a former actor who teaches theater in a failing department, faces a mutiny when she wants to put on All's Well that Ends Well instead of Macbeth. She is faced with crippling chronic pain from a stage accident and trying to cope when she meets three mysterious figures in her neighborhood bar who seem to have a cure for her maladies.

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