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Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria
Moderate: Misogyny, Transphobia, Death of parent
Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Alcohol
Minor: Animal death, Dementia, Death of parent
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug use, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Blood, Dementia, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol
Everyone else was fucked up, but I’ll give Mellors credit in that you fully understand why they’re fucked up, and you empathize with them. The character I was most disappointed by was Quentin. He got one chapter, which sort of examined his gender dysphoria and then
There were two things that took away from the enjoyment of the book for me: first, and most glaringly, once you realize that Cleo is just a self-insert for the author, it’s very hard to take the book seriously. Especially with the amount of time Cleo’s complimented on her beauty, and how everyone loves her, and how in comparison Eleanor is “sturdy” like a fucking tree — yeah, it’s weird. Every time Cleo was mentioned it was impossible to forget she was functionally the author because of her long flowing blonde hair and mysterious air — buddy, you could’ve at least made her brunette for plausible deniability.
The second problem was the fact that Cleo felt it was appropriate
Side note: nobody in this fucking book deserved to have a pet. Yeah, I’m looking at you too, Anders, you shithead.
In the end, I think the book did what it set out to do — show the dysfunction in interpersonal relationships — and I think the writing was good, and the characters were interesting. I didn’t hate it, but I wouldn’t say I loved it.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, Dysphoria
Moderate: Addiction
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism
Moderate: Self harm
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Self harm, Sexual content, Blood, Vomit, Dementia, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
• Important topics were explored well.
• Plot was almost non-existent. It was just New York, alcohol, drugs, infidelity and vibes.
• More of a character case study kind of book.
Graphic: Self harm
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol
I’ve voted it 3.75 because I finished it wanting more from some of the storylines, and some things were left unresolved
Graphic: Addiction, Mental illness, Self harm, Blood, Alcohol