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dusktreader's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Death, Medical content, Bullying, and Abandonment
mangofraiche's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Infidelity, Dementia, and Death
paperquilt'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? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Dementia, Medical content, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Racism, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia
psitstorrie's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- 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: Sexual harassment, Sexual content, and Infidelity
Moderate: Medical content
Minor: Lesbophobia and Pandemic/Epidemic
nrchambers's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
4.0
The relationship between Joan and Ari was wonderous, and I wish the book had looked more at the complex generational interplay between Ari, her mom, and her paternal grandmother. There was such depth hinted at not only in their personal relationships but their lives as artists.
And more science. We got hints of Ari's brilliant mind but the way the epilogue played out, it felt very rushed.
Might add more once I've sat and reflected a bit.
Graphic: Medical content and Infidelity
novella42's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
There were some beautiful lines. I think I most appreciated her relationship with her grandmother, a wonderful character who definitely stole the show for me.
I may try to revise this review after I get some distance from it.
Graphic: Death, Dementia, Toxic friendship, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
jayburding's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Minor: Cancer, Dementia, Death, and Medical content
radhikag's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
I’m so happy these books exist, I can’t wait to re read them time and time again. I think everyone should read these but esp queer Bay Area people lol because it’s beautiful to see all the details I recognize and know about my home and city and just ugh!! Too good!
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Some quotes I love:
"You can't worry about other people's feelings about what you're creating," Joan said. "That will suffocate you. You have to do what your heart desires."
“[Her] physical body may be gone now, but who she was is not gone. She was more than her body, just as we are all more than our bodies. She was connected with all of you. You influenced her, and she influenced you, and that influence continued.”
The urn was beautiful. It had a round belly and an elegantly curved neck and a perfectly fitted kid, and it had been glazed in some way that left brilliant sea green steaks and dark blue flecks on the surface. As if the sea had been burned into the clay.
My stomach was a hollow inside me.
“Everything [she] taught you goes on. The thoughts that arise in your mind when you think of her are still influenced by her.”
The hollow was growing. I would become a sinkhole.
Susan Douglas lot a candle on the altar. A thin trickle of smoke rose from the march. “Earth returning to earth, fire returning to fire, wind returning to wind, water returning to water.” (309)
Moderate: Death, Medical content, and Sexual content
Minor: Lesbophobia, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Outing, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Pandemic/Epidemic, Bullying, and Xenophobia
uss_mary_shelley's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Medical content, Grief, and Homophobia
haileyhardcover's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Moderate: Dementia, Biphobia, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Death, Sexual content, Grief, Infidelity, and Medical content
Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, and Pandemic/Epidemic