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mik_yekcuts's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty
jessy4550's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
0.75
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Bullying, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Addiction, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Sexual content
cupcakes_and_coffee's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Addiction, and Mental illness
briz_reads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Infidelity, Fatphobia, and Animal death
cheye13's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
My main takeaway from this one was confusion. Throughout the book, I could not decipher whether I was being laughed at or laughed with. The plot was far more interesting than I expected it to be, but it also veered pretty far from the synopsis – Treasure Island and the narrator's "core values" drop out of the book around midway and don't make a return until the conclusion.
Despite the low rating, I did have a good time with this one. I'm just not sure I took anything away from it.
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
Moderate: Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, and Drug abuse
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Grief, and Sexual content
also note: invasion of privacy, mentions of hospitals/ER, very brief comment on paternal incest, implied undiagnosed mental illness (narrator discusses "successful avoidance" of therapy)pang's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death
Minor: Racism, Drug use, and Body shaming
framedflower's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
Moderate: Mental illness and Body shaming
emilime's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
0.5
Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty
Moderate: Cursing
gracer's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
It's nothing like the broad-horizoned, adventure-filled escapade I imagined. It's almost sarcastic. Out protagonist is filled with adventure-chasing ambitions upon reading Treasure Island, yes, but not in the way expected - her choices are more self-sabotaging than world-opening, and her attitude doesn't help. She's hard to like, if you read this too earnestly, so you have to take it for what it is: an ironic look at what it can be to be BOLD and INDEPENDENT and HORN-BLOWING (I'm forgetting one). Be careful how you set yourself free... you might actually be locking yourself in. (It's hard to be independent in our society; if you don't have a job, you end up relying on your boyfriend or your parents.)
High points are the parrot and the ending, which somehow I did not see coming.
Graphic: Animal death, Blood, and Sexual content
kaelcozoro's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Animal death
Moderate: Violence