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Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Self harm, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Sexual harassment
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide attempt, Alcohol
Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Suicide attempt
Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide attempt
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use
Minor: Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship
Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt
Minor: Adult/minor relationship
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Deportation
Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Homophobia, Sexism, Suicide attempt
Stating the obvious, the book flows like a river. The writing's great, descriptions' great yada yada yada...
Finished the book in 3 days. That says enough.
Now, the interesting stuff...
I found the main character insufferable, which is absolutely fine, characters do NOT have to be likeable, but Mellors tried SO hard to make her likeable by mentioning just how likeable she is (how convenient) which made me dislike her even more.
TW//
The book also features PRETTY heavy themes like alcoholism, drug abuse, animal cruelty, su!cide, self-h@rm, and the list goes on....without ever really diving into the complexity and complications of each struggle, thereby making the character's problems seem shallow (they are not!!!)
Along with having like a bazillion unnecessary characters, this, too, was unnecessary. Towards the end of the book, it felt as if Mellors was just throwing in as much trauma as she possibly can for that shocker effect. Unfortunately, that had a counter effect. It made me desensitised to much of the events in the novel.
traumatised characters ≠ unconditional sympathy
I've read books with way fewer events going on but had a much deeper attachment to the characters.
Frustratingly, this could have been such a good book....
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Sexual harassment
Graphic: Animal death, Drug use, Suicide attempt
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Dementia, Death of parent
Graphic: Suicide attempt
Moderate: Alcoholism
Minor: Addiction, Animal death