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Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Medical content, Kidnapping
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
Graphic: Pregnancy
Moderate: Kidnapping, Pregnancy
Graphic: Mental illness, Kidnapping
Graphic: Kidnapping, Pregnancy
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: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Kidnapping, Murder
Moderate: Mental illness, Pedophilia, Death of parent, Abandonment
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