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All's Well by Mona Awad

116 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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backpackbunny3's review against another edition

It hit perfectly for me, but I’m a disabled Shakespeare actor who loves magical realism so I’m about as close to the target audience as you can be. If it didn’t work for you that’s just how it goes, but I truly want everyone who reads this review to know that All’s Well is the most real depiction of chronic pain I’ve ever read. The only outlandish thing in these pages is the magic.

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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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asher_james's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark 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

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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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monfernx94's review against another edition

3.75

dark 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

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katikins's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 12%

Maybe it would be good if I had the background familiarity with the play the MC keeps referencing, but honestly this was so hard to trudge through I didn’t feel it was worth continuing for 12 more hours.

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