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redheadorganist'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? It's complicated
2.75
Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Cancer, and Grief
Minor: Vomit, Drug use, and Injury/Injury detail
sestout's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Minor: Grief, Infidelity, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Drug use
itsheyfay's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Medical content, Grief, Infidelity, and Alcohol
Minor: Death of parent and Cancer
spineofthesaurus's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, and Medical content
Moderate: Confinement, Drug use, Self harm, Xenophobia, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Grief, Racism, Sexual content, and Abandonment
Minor: Cancer and Death of parent
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
rickieskidmore's review
- 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
3.5
Minor: Grief, Sexual content, Chronic illness, Drug use, and Injury/Injury detail
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
jojo_'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
3.5
Minor: Infidelity, Cancer, Death of parent, Body shaming, Grief, and Homophobia
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