Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

All's Well by Mona Awad

18 reviews

biobeetle's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional funny informative reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Abandonment, Alcohol

Minor: Child death

noshinbean's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark funny reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content, Blood, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

withlivjones's review against another edition

4.5

challenging mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Holy hell, Mona Awad has done it again. This book as it all: trippy dream sequences, mysterious characters reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland, and overall a really powerful message about how women’s pain, especially if it’s invisible, is so often dismissed and erased. Part of me sympathises with and roots for Miranda as she gains the ability to take ownership of her chronic pain and punish those who have downplayed it, while part of me grows slightly more horrified as she descends further into insanity. This book, like Awad’s other writing, reads like an acid trip, and I am so here for it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Medical content, Medical trauma

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Alcohol

lunar_lesbian's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny

Moderate: Toxic relationship

decie's review against another edition

1.0

dark tense

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something about this book just rubbed me the wrong way. a big part of that was definitely the way disability was talked about/used almost like a horror element in parts....it feels like it's supposed to show the reality of life as a woman with chronic pain, but it just ended up pushing cure rhetoric and framing disabled people as crabby old hags with "dead legs" who are resented by their former loved ones

until they are cured and "back to normal" for the happy ending

 

I am literally begging authors to stop using the magically disabled and tragically disabled tropes in their books. it really shouldn't be this hard.

I also felt like Awad was trying to have an unreliable narrator but made her so unreliable that half of the story was lost. we only needed one sentence from a onlooker's pov to make the entire book make sense, but we didn't get that. instead, we got a bizarre ableist fever dream without any clear messaging. wild.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Sexual content

Minor: Physical abuse, Rape, Alcohol

ronan_lesh's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Medical trauma

Moderate: Drug use, Misogyny, Sexual content, Grief

Minor: Violence, Death of parent

paperbackparker's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I was really loving this, but the ending wasn’t my favourite. However, Miranda and this story will stick with me for the rest of my life. As someone who deals with chronic pain and chronic illness, this book really left a mark on me. I also don’t think I’ve ever experienced the simultaneous delight and hatred for characters like I did while reading this. What a story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Misogyny

ninjamuse's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Misogyny, Medical content, Medical trauma

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Blood