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Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcohol
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Rape
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Grief, Abandonment
Graphic: Child death, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Classism
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Dementia
Minor: Body shaming
Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Grief, Classism
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Infidelity, Self harm, Sexism, Blood, Dementia, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Alcohol
Minor: Gun violence, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Pregnancy, Alcohol
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Grief, Gaslighting, Classism
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Alcohol
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Classism
This was a well-constructed mystery that was never overly predictable nor overly opaque. This made it a compelling and engaging story across both chapters and timelines. I was particularly touched by the ways in which the coming of age storylines of average (and very truthfully portrayed) teenage heartbreak and identity exploration were allowed to live fully within the grander multigenerational mystery. I am unsure how I feel about the inclusion of Carl and Jacob as minor narrators with their own POVs; in some ways I feel that they made other aspects of the story feel less like a sudden magic show reveal, but in other ways I almost enjoyed experiencing the story through the four primary female narrators and wonder whether we as readers could have experienced the same information alongside them rather than through the brief inclusion of the other two.
I listened to this on audiobook; I personally felt that the narrator has a very distinctive “character” voice, which contributed to some early difficulty keeping the multiple narrators straight and differentiated. But I am biased towards greatly enjoying audiobook narration with different voice actors for each POV, or even full cast audio productions.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Grief
Moderate: Domestic abuse
Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, Drug use, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Sexism, Forced institutionalization, Blood
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexism, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Gaslighting, Classism
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, Alcohol
Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism