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Väldigt intressant
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Kidnapping
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Blood, Lesbophobia
Minor: Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Torture, Car accident
Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Blood, Car accident
Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Alcoholism, Racism, Self harm, Grief
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting
The book spends a lot of time covering Sally's growth and challenges and you come to root for her as she tries so hard to be both true to herself and still become better adjusted. That is the main timeline and POV. Then there is the flashback timeline with a kid/teen/adult named Steven that is considerably less hopeful and enriching. Mostly because his dad is a bloody pedophile who, while he doesn't touch Steven, definitely warps the kid's growth and mental state. Lots of fun, right? Those are ROUGH chapters. Nugent does mitigate the horror somewhat by being pretty clinical and dry in her writing of those sections.
The end, though, is what really got me. It was just... Look, we all know that Sally isn't going to ever be how she would have been without that childhood. But we have hope for her. Hope is such a precious thing and so easily crushed. I don't easily forgive further crushing of already hurt butterflies.
So it wasn't a bad book but it wasn't a great book, in my opinion. It was well paced, solid character work, detailed plotting... But it was a hard book to read and made harder by the details and layers of pain and abuse and smothering of hope.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Violence, Kidnapping
Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Gaslighting
Minor: Death, Car accident
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Pedophilia, Rape, Kidnapping
Minor: Death, Death of parent
Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Gaslighting
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Pregnancy
This book is very dark, but also does a good job of showing the many aspects of people. Like Peter says, not everyone is totally good or bad.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting
Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Homophobia, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Stalking, Car accident, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Alcohol
Minor: Drug use, Hate crime