A review by elouisewills
In Memoriam by Alice Winn

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

Beautiful book. It feels terribly sad, but in a dulled way that seems to reflect how the characters must be feeling: life is much worse than it once was but I am too tired and ruined to care enough about anything or about how sad I am.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Medical trauma, Child death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Suicide, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, War, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Homophobia, Antisemitism, and Bullying