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The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore

9 reviews

peh27's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Bullying

Moderate: Classism, Alcohol, and Car accident

mel_j's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

My heart. 

Why is it not possible to give more than 5 stars?

Such s heavy book, but a beautiful one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Racism, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Biphobia, and Alcohol

Minor: Homophobia, Vomit, and Outing

leaflit's review

dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Biphobia, Bullying, Gaslighting, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Racism, Alcohol, Drug use, Gaslighting, and Classism

ghostlyprince's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Rape, Gaslighting, Grief, Sexual violence, Confinement, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, Outing, Biphobia, Bullying, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Blood, Sexual content, Alcohol, Body shaming, Racism, and Vomit

Minor: Car accident and Fatphobia

tfarfan's review

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Rape

Moderate: Biphobia, Classism, Alcohol, and Racism

hamstringy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I read this at work and had to go hide in the bathroom to cry about it. Ouch. 
This was such an amazing story. It hurts so badly-it’s frighteningly true, and no matter how badly I wanted it never to have happened, I couldn’t make that reality possible, but there’s so much good in there as well.
This book is really peak catharsis, with a lot of really good family and culture woven in. I can tell that McLemore made this with so much care.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Vomit and Racism

Minor: Alcohol and Body shaming

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

A beautiful look at trauma and recovery. I loved the characters and mcLemore’s style. This book really handles  trauma well and vividly illustrates what it’s like. I also love food magic! It was great having an m-spec protagonist as well. Strong content warnings for rape, bullying, harassment, homophobia, and panic attacks.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Body shaming, Rape, Sexual harassment, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, Lesbophobia, Racism, and Classism

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Drug use

Minor: Alcohol and Vomit

Being drugged, blackmail

lyd41's review

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

This book was just so beautiful. The writing was full of imagery that felt poetic in nature. I am so glad the author decided to share their story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Racism, Bullying, Car accident, Classism, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual content, Blood, Alcohol, and Grief

puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Racism, Sexism, Vomit, Bullying, and Biphobia