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Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Alcohol, Classism
Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Alcohol
Minor: Rape, Dementia, Lesbophobia
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcohol
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Cursing, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Blood
Minor: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Alcohol
Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief
Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Alcohol
Minor: Fatphobia, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization
Graphic: Child death, Drug use, Mental illness, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Blood, Lesbophobia
Minor: Bullying, Classism
The women of the story are it's central orbit, and each is struggling with their own mirrored and fractured views of the same timeline. Some are trying to connect, some are reconnecting, some are finding independence, but all of them are on the heels of self-actualization.
I did not expect this book to be such a cathartic and validating experience, versus some other books that have approached the same topics. There is something about the way that many (men) write female and/or queer trauma that feels so disgusting to me. This book was different. It discussed hard-hitting topics with tact, honesty, and a marked lack of fetishism.
The shift of when and where in the timeline, combined with the POV shift, allows the author to reveal clues and information in a much more impactful, careful order. Each character feels like a real person, whom is as much a puzzle as the disappearances they are trying to make sense of. No details felt out of place, the descriptions didn’t meander, there was no flowery prose without reason. The writing style of this book flowed intentionally through the plotline like the set of streams and rivers that came to rest at Lake Joan.
Graphic: Mental illness, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Murder
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Murder, Gaslighting, Classism
Minor: Addiction, Child abuse, Confinement, Blood, Lesbophobia, Abandonment
I think I would’ve liked to see evidence of longer planning for Barbara’s disappearance.
Overall, I enjoyed the story, the resolution to Bear’s case, the justice set in motion against the Van Laars and McLellans. I’m interested in reading Moore’s other works! 😃
Moderate: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Classism
Minor: Child abuse, Confinement
Graphic: Child death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Classism
Moderate: Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Lesbophobia