Reviews with content warning for Mental illness - The Comeback

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jackieyvette's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This was a beautifully written. Heavy topics and a lot of emotional parts throughout.
Everyone in the book is flawed. From Grace to Esme to Dylan to Laurel to the parents and everyone beyond that, but even the flawed are great to read about here.
I loved Grace and Esme so much they felt like people I knew. Their mother was such a shit mom, but such an interesting character. Laurel was such a great friend but had so many moments where I wanted to shake her and say this isn't right and you know it. Dylan was somehow simultaneously a great and horrible husband. Everyone else sucks.

I wish Able would have died in that car accident and I wish Emelia was with them when it happened.

Crying score: cry-angle at the ready.

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stepnic's review

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dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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mcdermot's review

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challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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swanous's review

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challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

A really difficult but great story about an actress dealing with the trauma of being sexually assaulted by a mentor throughout her childhood career. The pace of the story matches the narrative, starting slow and all over the place and getting more focused and clearer as it reaches a climax at the end. Of course one book can never cover all of the ways a story like this can play out, but I think it did a really interesting and meaningful job at exploring complicated facets of her relationships with many others, her relationship with herself, and the emotional experience. The description of some of the most difficult emotions was really vivid beautiful and eerily relatable at times.

I also thought there were some interesting ties from the beginning of the book to the end. For example when she was struggling most and in the deepest part of her isolation in the beginning, she talks about waking from her parents to Disneyland every day. Later, as she’s grappling with whether or not pretending everything is okay is going to be enough to get her through, she has a conversation about hating the perfect LA weather because “it’s like living in Disneyland” that I think reflects her budding realization that she is going to have to open up more and do something about the abuse.

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