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Graphic: Death, Grief, Murder
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Misogyny, Sexual content, Blood, Alcohol
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Blood, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment
Moderate: Child death, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Death of parent, Alcohol
Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Drug use, Suicide
this story tried to be victim forward, but it simply could NEVER be that: the victims are a footnote to the man who murders them, two of which each only get a PARAGRAPH each in the last chapter of the book, whereas the story goes to lengths to describe the man who kills them, ansel, to us. we get his backstory, from his sad beginning to his end, which gives him absolution. like...what?
not only that, but the characters are so woefully flat. jenny and hazel are stereotypically written twins, two ofthe victims are hardly mentioned, lila is sparsely written about, lavender is a horrible mother, rachel is a character solely in name, and blue is just...there.
this book felt like it boiled down to 'all men are bad and all women are good' without trying to look into the reasons WHY ansel felt like he could do the things he did. im also sick and tired of stories like this having the main character be a psychopath. its such a horrible stereotype.
i did enjoy the authors writing style, but this story was simply horribly executed.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Blood, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol
I enjoyed the book!
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Physical abuse, Grief, Murder
Minor: Alcoholism
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse
Moderate: Death, Murder
Minor: Alcoholism, Death of parent
"The love between sisters was not the sort of thing she'd read about in books or swooned over in movies. It embodied a category all in itself, a quiet knowing that swam in her veins, even when Jenny was miles away. Sister love was like food, or air, or memory itself. It was molecular. The very stuff of her. But it was not a love she chose, and for this, Hazel would always resent the part of herself that feared- maybe hoped- that she would never love anyone quite the way she loved Jenny.
Graphic: Death, Murder
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Domestic abuse
Minor: Alcoholism, Racism, Death of parent
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Alcohol
Graphic: Animal cruelty
Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Stalking, Murder
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Murder
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail