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whiddengem's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.25
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness
Moderate: Animal death and Suicide attempt
Minor: Toxic friendship and Pregnancy
Interspecies sex happens.bersblue's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Murder, and Sexism
mayareads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Lucy, the titular Pisces, does this thing where she projects narratives onto everyone else in her life. She constructs elaborate fantasies where she is the main character, and then inevitably is crushed by the shame and disappointment when reality does not follow the narrative she chose for it. She is a magnificent unreliable narrator.
The pisces is a book about that process: the way we write the story of other people and how they see us in our heads and then feel blindsided when those narratives are entirely fictional. How do we choose to accept the mundane when the fantasy promised something sublime?
Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide, Self harm, Blood, and Emotional abuse
ivyleiff's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Animal death, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Alcohol, Self harm, Mental illness, Drug use, Death, and Animal cruelty
Moderate: Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Excrement, and Vomit
lavenderpagess's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Sexual content, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Cursing, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship
nahochacon's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Drug use, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Suicide attempt
hungeberg'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
First of all - i did debate giving this 0 or 0,5 stars. However i do find small things of marit in this book. Second of all I was recommended this which is why i choose to finish it even though i struggled with the getting through it.
Let's start with the good;
- It's a complicated story about love addiction with a magical realism twist which I in the big whole like.
- Lucy as a narrator was decent.
Things i disliked
- I'm not one for smutty/erotic books and especially not when the character participating in the sexual acts are not even enjoying it? Why would I want to read about bad hurtful sex in such detail? AND SO MANY TIMES?! And then when Lucy finally found a partner who she enjoyed to fuck then it was some weird very specific "kinky" shit that not everyone would like (least of all me?!).
- I am not a classics student or for that matter a literary one and therefore I don't really have any claim on knowing Sapho's poems that well. However I do as a queer woman find Sapho to be a queer icon/character who participates in romantic/sexual relationships with both genders but especially with women. And somehow the use of her as a character in this book to justify this heterosexual bullshit rubbed me the wrong way.
- the treatment of other women in this book is horrendous.
Things I hated
- Does such a thing as toxic heterosexuality exist? Because then this would be it?
- Lucy seems to learn a few lessons by the end of a book. BUT NOT NEARLY ENOUGH??? At least it wasn't written out in a way that make it seem like she will become a better person ESPECIALLY to the other women in her life.
- The treatment of the dog. Nough said.
Graphic: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, Excrement, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Cursing, Animal cruelty, and Alcoholism