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Writers & Lovers by Lily King

5 reviews

clare072's review

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death, Cancer, and Death of parent

Minor: Infertility, Infidelity, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

atamano's review

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Cancer, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Blood, Abandonment, Infertility, and Homophobia

zoiejanelle's review

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

while i understand the merits of this book (its examination of grief, commentary on publishing, feminist themes, messaging about identity, adulthood, and relationships) it wasn’t for me.

truly, men are trash. i don’t need to read more books about how men consistently screw women over in every aspect of life. i liked Casey’s voice, and i heavily related to her constant crises about writing, who she was outside of her craft, and wondering when life was really supposed to start, but the writing style and pacing didn’t stick the landing for me. 

i do think this would be something i could recommend to someone going through similar things—career changes, losing a loved one, questioning what it means to be a grown up—but it wouldn’t be my first choice. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexual content, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Pregnancy and Cancer

marypr4's review

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

5.0

I have rated a total of 4 books 5 stars in the last 2 years, but this book changed everything for me. I’ve felt that buzzing, the buzzing Casey talks about, for years and years- it’s been humming along the surface of my skin, dormant at intervals, but always there, since I first wrote- and today when I finished “Writers and Lovers,” I felt like a shaken soda. Especially reading everything after the scene where she reads the Memoir of madness and her “insides burn in terrifying recognition.” I’ve been in that place for so long. I’m so absolutely full of things I’m finally ready to say. I’m so grateful. I’ve been on the verge for so long and this did it. Sometimes, like Muriel’s itchy ankles, when I read a good book I just go quiet for days. I only speak when absolutely necessary, I stop answering my texts. My roommates actually get worried about me. But today, when I finished this book, I opened my notes app and I wrote and wrote and I could hardly stop myself to drive home when the coffee shop I was in closed. I used voice-to-text on the drive home, till my phone died, and then I practically ran inside to plug it up and immediately pulled out my laptop for the first time in ages. I can FEEL the words and they bubble in me till I fizz over. I want to express how absolutely eternally grateful I am for this book. This is the most wonderful relief. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Death

Moderate: Rape, Cancer, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pedophilia, and Medical content

Minor: Infidelity, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Body horror, Gaslighting, Infertility, and Alcohol

sib_reads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Infidelity, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Sexual content