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Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting
Of course there's links to her lost Ellie, glorified in her absence, practically ignoring the existence of her other children. Laurel is living in a fog and only beginning to come out of it with Floyd, a mathematics professor & writer. He has 2 daughters, one is struggling through young adulthood and the other is a precocious/obnoxious/creepily intelligent child who LOOKS JUST LIKE ELLIE---I'm sorry but how is that not grounds enough to be like, "sorry I'm gunna head out byyyye." There are so many moments of eerie overlapping memories, vague at times but they become more poignant and stark. Like girl why are you shrugging this off?
Finding out what happened to Ellie is fucked up. I have no other description. I actually had the thought of it simmering in the back of my mind as things unfurled & hoped to God I was wrong...but I wasn't. Sad as heck. I also wondered aloud about why I'm considered weird for preferring fantasy novels when people like books like this. Where captivity is suffocating. Where some deranged person destroys a whole family's life (even if it sounds like Laurel was deep in resentment towards her bore of a husband before Ellie disappeared). But okay, here we are. The end is sad, there's closure but it's ultimately a tragedy.
Graphic: Confinement, Kidnapping
Moderate: Death, Suicide, Toxic relationship
Minor: Miscarriage
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Torture, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Vomit, Alcohol, Classism
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol
Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Physical abuse, Grief, Pregnancy
Moderate: Child death, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Murder
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Pregnancy, Abandonment
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Rape, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Murder
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Pregnancy
Minor: Death of parent
Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Suicide, Kidnapping, Pregnancy