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All's Well by Mona Awad

67 reviews

ciaomara's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

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kisseu's review

3.5

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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autisticpoetryqueer's review against another edition

3.25

mysterious reflective 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

I really liked the exploration of chronic illness/chronic pain in this book. I also liked the theatrical element. Overall, it was a good read. It was unique. I wasn't sure what to expect from the ending, but the ending was satisfying.

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hauntedantiqueshop's review against another edition

3.75

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Hmm. Odd. But I don’t know enough about All’s Well That Ends Well to dispute this. I will say that I wasn’t a huge fan of the writing style. Lots of repetition and also no one says another persons name that often when speaking to them?? “Hello, Miranda! Miranda, are you okay, Miranda? That’s so weird, Miranda. You’re limping, Miranda.” SHUT UP??

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pussylungs's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Reality blurs as this character slowly spirals in a pill-induced haze down the rabbit hole of her own failures. Addicts and disabled folx will identify with this story, theatre lovers will find it amusing, and no one will know what is real and what is not. This book was meant to convey how women go insane from not being believed about their pain. But it turned out to be more about how addiction/lack of therapy & proper medical care/delusions can lead to a downward spiral. But hey, all's well that ends well, right?

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juhmeeluh's review against another edition

4.5

dark funny 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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lauren_lovestoread's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

What the fuck was this? Idk but I loved it. What a weird, wonderfully disturbing fever dream.

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ivi_reads_books's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional mysterious 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

This book completely surprised me!

Confession: I've never read a horror book before - mostly because I'm a scardy cat and thought it would be all gore. It's not! Instead, this book is weird in the best possible way.

The story follows a theater professor whose life is falling apart - her students hate the Shakespeare play she's directing (All's Well That Ends Well), and she's living with excruciating back and leg pain after a devastating fall during her acting career.

At first, I thought this was a deep dive into the bio-psycho-social approach to chronic pain and the mind-body connection. And then... things got wild. I won't spoil it, but let's just say this book takes a turn you won't see coming. If you're into dark, twisty reads with a touch of the bizarre, this one's for you!

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danielatheinkdrinker's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

all’s well is mona awads portayal of chronic pain, she did wonderfully. i have fibromyalgia which is a chronic condition and i stopped myself more than once after i finished the book to make sense of this realization.
i am miranda. she is me.
it terrifies me, how i understand her pain all too well; however what terrifies me the most is: i wouldn’t doubt twice to take a trick. i. wouldn’t. think. twice.
this book; it’s fine, it’s ~~all well~~. how could it now be? why would it not be?

But not too much pain, am I right? Not too much, never too much. If it was too much, you wouldn't know what to do with me, would you?

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aliyachaudhry's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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