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fluffy1st's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Miscarriage, Sexual content, Medical content, and Death of parent
Moderate: Abortion, Police brutality, and Infertility
Minor: Suicide and Vomit
kerrence30's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Pregnancy, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Miscarriage, Violence, and Racism
Moderate: Eating disorder and Police brutality
Minor: Drug use, Suicide, and Infertility
victorsbookshelf's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content, Mental illness, Racism, Suicide, Police brutality, Miscarriage, Drug use, Death of parent, and Infertility
Moderate: Abortion, Animal death, and War
bail33's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Abandonment, Death of parent, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Pregnancy, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Hate crime, Abortion, Miscarriage, Suicide, Death of parent, and Addiction
Minor: Blood, Car accident, Medical content, and Adult/minor relationship
thatsssorachael's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Miscarriage and Blood
Moderate: Death of parent, Racial slurs, Infidelity, and Domestic abuse
Minor: Abortion, Racism, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, and Police brutality
inkylabyrinth's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Miscarriage and Medical content
Moderate: Suicide, Death of parent, and Drug use
kjofalltrades's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.75
Graphic: Violence, Miscarriage, Alcohol, Sexual content, Racial slurs, Medical content, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Sexual violence, Abortion, and Police brutality
Moderate: Vomit, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Racism
Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Animal cruelty, and Animal death
vagorsol's review
3.0
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Racism, and Miscarriage
Minor: Eating disorder, Suicide, and Abortion
Descriptions/depictions of depersonalization.abmochapman's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
As a main character, Edie is dizzying. Her decisions, and the decisions of the people around her, are very frequently erratic and inexplicable. This makes a lot of sense for where she is in her life (that is, stumbling around) but it feels kind of strange for the older couple in whose relationship she has become entangled. There’s also so much fruitless internal monologue. The author’s generous use of metaphors and run-on-sentences is sometimes striking and poetic but oftentimes pretentious and incomprehensible.
At the end of the book, I feel like the narrative has barely moved forward. Maybe that’s just the reality of such a situation. This is a the story of a young woman struggling to get anywhere. The moments Edie shares with the wife, Rebecca, and the daughter, Akila, feel the most meaningful but I almost feel like they are still not fully developed. With such a slow build-up to an abrupt end, I am left wanting much more.
Graphic: Suicide, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, and Infidelity
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Self harm
Minor: Animal death
kvokolek's review against another edition
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.75
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Abortion, and Suicide
Minor: Drug use