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Platform Seven
by Louise Doughty
I'm not hiding the content, even though there are some spoilers in here I guess, because this book was triggering and people have to know that. Do not read Platform Seven if gaslighting, abuse of any kind or suicide are triggering to you!
This kind of sucked?
I definitely enjoyed the first bit of the book quite a lot, but the overwhelming majority of Platform Seven was just about a guy gaslighting his girlfriend and it took me MANY days to get through those hundreds and hundreds of pages. It's just upsetting. I would've liked for there to have been trigger warnings also and just something that would've warned me about the course this plot would take beforehand, because the synopsis sounded really intriguing, but that's just not at all what the book ended up to be about. I don't want to read about abuse and gaslighting. A trigger warning wouldn't have spoiled anything major anyway, if there had been one, and in my opinion it doesn't even matter if trigger warnings spoiled anything, because they're there for protection.
There wasn't much shocking like in a plot twist-y way either. It's just upsetting, because the concept sounded so cool and then I ended up having to push through very triggering plot in the hopes for him to get justice and then he didn't. He did get something, but seriously? Like yeah real life sucks, but I don't go to books for that. I skipped a lot of text and did that thing where you only read speech, I just wanted to get it over with as quickly as possible. It's been a couple of days since I finished it and everything I remember gives me a lot of anxiety. Not memorable in a positive way. Disappointed this wasn't what it sounded like.
Again, do not read Platform Seven if gaslighting, abuse of any kind or suicide are triggering for you. Also don't read this like in general unless you want to get real worked up and angry I guess? Maybe give this book to the horrible men in your life. Maybe this'll teach them something. Or don't, because maybe they'll get ideas. I'm very upset. This could've been an amazing book. The synopsis sounded so cool, but nope...
This kind of sucked?
I definitely enjoyed the first bit of the book quite a lot, but the overwhelming majority of Platform Seven was just about a guy gaslighting his girlfriend and it took me MANY days to get through those hundreds and hundreds of pages. It's just upsetting. I would've liked for there to have been trigger warnings also and just something that would've warned me about the course this plot would take beforehand, because the synopsis sounded really intriguing, but that's just not at all what the book ended up to be about. I don't want to read about abuse and gaslighting. A trigger warning wouldn't have spoiled anything major anyway, if there had been one, and in my opinion it doesn't even matter if trigger warnings spoiled anything, because they're there for protection.
There wasn't much shocking like in a plot twist-y way either. It's just upsetting, because the concept sounded so cool and then I ended up having to push through very triggering plot in the hopes for him to get justice and then he didn't. He did get something, but seriously? Like yeah real life sucks, but I don't go to books for that. I skipped a lot of text and did that thing where you only read speech, I just wanted to get it over with as quickly as possible. It's been a couple of days since I finished it and everything I remember gives me a lot of anxiety. Not memorable in a positive way. Disappointed this wasn't what it sounded like.
Again, do not read Platform Seven if gaslighting, abuse of any kind or suicide are triggering for you. Also don't read this like in general unless you want to get real worked up and angry I guess? Maybe give this book to the horrible men in your life. Maybe this'll teach them something. Or don't, because maybe they'll get ideas. I'm very upset. This could've been an amazing book. The synopsis sounded so cool, but nope...