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sycamore22's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Moderate: Racism
Minor: Ableism and Sexual assault
- An author at a book party says some very fetishizing things about people in Thailand, how everyone looks alike, and how he wanted to have sex with everyone. That was gross. - Elio has a thought about Oliver in a wheelchair, and how Elio would feel superior to Oliver if that were true. That was also gross. - a peach is compared to a rape victim. Did not like that image, as a survivor myself. It was a one-sentence comparison and the subject was never touched on again in the book.therainbowshelf's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content and Adult/minor relationship
Minor: Sexual assault, Rape, Homophobia, Death, and Death of parent
kysss's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Why is this an lgbtq romance, this can make homophobes continue to have the idea that gay people are bad and are all pedophiles and groomers. Please unpublish this!! and quit your career, Andre Aciman!!' Thanks!
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Rape
alice_hesse'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? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Stalking, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Vomit, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Death of parent
vneusc's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Bordering on creepy and obsessive, having to
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who managed to have sex with the entire town, including Elio's same-aged cousinSpoiler
fuck each otherI tried, I really tried to like this book. And, yes, there were some parts where I understood why it's so loved, but I don't know if those fleeting poetic moments outweigh the utter disgust and loathing I experienced while reading this book. I'll leave my "favourite" quotes from both sides of the spectrum and you can decide for yourself if this book is really worth reading. Marking for spoilers because you don't deserve to read what I read so beware 3
Poetic or pretentious?
He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same. All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.We belonged to each other, but had lived so far apart that we belonged to others now.
Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.
Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.
We had found the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.
Regretful passages
The firm, rounded cheeks of the apricot with their dimple in the middle reminded me of how his body had stretched across the boughs of the tree with his tight, rounded ass echoing the color and shape of the fruit. Touching the apricot was like touching him...placing the apricot in my palm he was giving me his ass to hold, or that, in biting the fruit, I was also biting into that part of body...if I dared to bite that far, his apricock.If having a weird obsession with skin, feet, and fruit; sniffing and wearing someone else's bathing suit, and fantasising about hurting a man for power and control is poetic then I don't want it.Spoiler
The bruised and damaged peach, like a r*pe victim, lay on its side on my desk, shamed, loyal, aching, and confused, struggling not to spill what I'd left inside.I kept repeating to myself, looking inside the suit for something more personal yet than his smell and then kissing every corner of it, almost wishing to find hair, anything, to lick it, to put the whole bathing suit in my mouth
I put his pillow over my face, kissed it savagely, and wrapping my legs around it...It took less than a minute
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I wanted him dead too...If I didn't kill him, then I'd cripple him for life, so that he'd be with us in a wheelchair and never go back to the States. If he were in a wheelchair, I would always know where he was, and he'd be easy to find. I would feel superior to him and become his master, now that he was crippled.
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p.p.s. I really hope the movie will be worth the trouble of reading this...
all the p.s. i hate myself for reading this.
p.s. i wonder if Oliver has any redeeming qualities. after all, this is all told from the perspective of Elio. on second thought..?
update. armie hammer sucks ass and i can only wonder how timmy felt on set with this excuse of a man :/
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Ableism, and Sexual assault
cgibson25's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Cursing, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Stalking, Cancer, and Classism
Minor: Blood, Death of parent, Vomit, Antisemitism, Child death, and Death
kaadee's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Stalking, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Antisemitism, Death, Death of parent, and Transphobia
leahpardon's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Homophobia, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault
earthlyfae's review against another edition
Graphic: Sexual assault, Pedophilia, and Sexual content
jem_carstairs's review against another edition
This book. I knew it was problematic going into it but i didn’t expect a full on r*p* scene. In addition to the 7 year age gap, which would be fine if one character wasn’t literally a minor. Plus, the fact that the younger character (i really can’t remember their names) is happy about what happened and hopes for it to happen again. Can we please not glorify S/A?
In addition, I just hated the writing style. I don’t know what it was about it, it was just really boring. If it was just that I disliked, I’d probably try again but I have no desire to reread *that* scene. And I really don’t want to know what comes next.
To be honest, it horrifies me slightly that this has four stars and is so popular.
Graphic: Sexual assault and Rape