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mostlyvoidpartiallystars's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
And, for my recurring section: Do they bury their gays?
Moderate: Classism, Homophobia, Sexual content, Vomit, and Grief
Minor: Death of parent, Child abuse, Death, Racism, Toxic relationship, and Fatphobia
isabelmary's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Moderate: Grief, Alcohol, Cursing, Death of parent, Death, and Infidelity
Minor: Fatphobia and Homophobia
buttermellow'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? No
2.0
Moderate: Colonisation
Minor: Homophobia and Fatphobia
dhritigupta's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Moderate: Fatphobia
Minor: Medical trauma and Terminal illness
emilykayvsthelibrary's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Cursing, Fatphobia, Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, and Medical trauma
octaviomart's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Moderate: Fatphobia
rockyroadbutch's review
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
Moderate: Alcohol
Minor: Ableism, Alcoholism, Terminal illness, Sexism, Racism, Medical content, Infidelity, Homophobia, Fatphobia, Cultural appropriation, and Body shaming
kp_writ's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
If I had to describe this book in a single blurb, it would be this: Less is a better-written Eat, Pray, Love that explores the mid-life crisis of a heartbroken gay man who struggles to grapple with his age and relative mediocrity as a writer.
This book was sold to me as exploring a “new gay identity,” and I was thoroughly disappointed to find I’d be reading a main character who was a white cis middle-aged gay man with enough financial security to travel the world. While I understand gay identity hasn’t had very much time to explore life after 50 due to the AIDS crisis, this is the kind of queer demographic we already see in media. There is nothing new about the story of Arthur Less.
Moderate: Alcoholism and Infidelity
Minor: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Cursing, Fatphobia, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship