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Graphic: Mental illness, Medical trauma
Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Body horror, Chronic illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Grief
Graphic: Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma
Moderate: Addiction, Body horror, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death
I loved the magic and dream sequences. It felt like a thriller, comedy, drama and realistic fiction all at once. I love the different genres combined
All's well really captures chronic pain and how ignored and overlooked it is by everyone around you even family.
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I love the character development even if it was small with most of the characters like Briana and how Grace apologized Miranda grew as a character as well.
This review is not well written, but I loved it overall
Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship
I'm so glad I was able to put aside all of my concerns and preconceptions, and dive into this work. 'All's Well' is a story of magic, of witches, of the fantastical and the mundane. It's also, primarily, a story about living with chronic pain. How it feels to be rendered invisible to professionals and loved ones alike. How it transforms you.
I think this book is an absolute masterpiece. I loved it even as I hated it.
Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Medical trauma
Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment
Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Medical content, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Ableism, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship
This book recreates chronic pain, ableism and healthism, and medical trauma very well. I'm not sure I've read another novel like this, especially not one staged with so many supernatural and thriller-like elements. The scenes between Miranda and her PT were excruciating and hyper-realistic. You can tell Mona Awad's had her own pain and disillusionment with the medical-industrial complex.
Miranda is an amazingly developed and flawed character, and reading through her perspective
Graphic: Chronic illness, Medical trauma
Moderate: Drug use, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship
Minor: Sexual violence, Alcohol
Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Medical trauma, Gaslighting
Moderate: Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Sexism
The main character, Miranda, suffers from chronic pain with no concrete answers as to what's causing it. As someone who has been suffering with chronic pain since I was a teenager, I found I could relate to Miranda in so many ways. I understood her on such a personal level that I almost cried. I will say that if you can't relate to or understand her, then you may end up finding her to be annoying or whiny. Her pain is a huge part of the story, so be prepared to hear about it constantly.
Through this story we essentially live inside Miranda's head. This means that it is written as someone's train of thought would be, so there are very short sentences quite often. There are also a lot of flashbacks about her past as people and places remind her of happier times in her life. This kind of blurs the lines between reality and the past.
If you've read Bunny, then you are familiar with Mona Awad's ability to write an ending where there are multiple interpretations to what actually happened. I personally love this, and you can expect the same in All's Well. For a good chunk of it, it seems like there's just one path, but the last third really opens up other doors to possibilities, and I am here for it !
if you enjoy stories with an unreliable narrator, that are strange and bizzare, and deal with someone fighting the system to be heard, then I would 100% recommend this book. It's truly a phantasmagoria of pain, loss, and the right to live.
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Alcohol
Moderate: Toxic friendship
Minor: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood