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All's Well by Mona Awad

72 reviews

soggymcflurry's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This authors writing style is very interesting and addicting. This book was slow and difficult to read at times. The parts of the book that are real representations of life are depressing and challenging. The parts that are creative and mysterious are disturbing enough to make you read on. There’s a lot to unpack and think about.

Miranda’s descent includes a lot of stuff I didn’t care much about and struggled to connect to the story, and the end of the book was confusing at first. But overall a great read, especially for the chronically ill, the women filled with anger, people who have a small piece of them who desire revenge for the way the world has treated them, or fellow theater nerds.

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ktrain3900's review against another edition

4.5

dark funny lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This was a wild ride! While not quite meeting the mark of Bunny (which was 5 stars for me), I was still captivated by how the author tackles themes like chronic pain and mental health and complicated relationships in loud but subtle, and ultimately real and deeply human ways. Female characters are centered, rich, nuanced, never caricatured. Page-turning action, maddening behavior, and peopled with both oddballs and assholes, fools and self-anointed lords (much like Shakespeare himself). Awad is an author I think I now have to add to my must-read-it-all list.

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perth_is's review against another edition

4.5

dark tense medium-paced

I mean, god. What an enjoyable book! This book was point blank, so much fun and was gripping from beginning to end. It something very important to say about people with chronic pain not being believed by doctors and impacting their relationships in horrible ways, even more painful then the pain. Miranda believes that many people are her enemy and are against her and you can really see that fractured reality as you spend it in her head. More specifically, near the end of the book where she goes to sleep in the ocean.

Were some points shoved in your face? Yeah but that didn’t hinder my enjoyment of this book in any way.

Also, another win for the lesbians!

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ashleycmms's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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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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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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