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Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

4.5

dark emotional funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Everyone in this Room Will Someday Be Dead is Emily Austin’s ingenious answer to Ligotti’s The Conspiracy Against the Human Race. In Gilda, we’re given a complex, depressive, neurotic perspective that shows why we fight nihilism in the face of our own mortality: we must. We have no other alternative. Hilarious, revelatory, and existential, this book is criminally underrated.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Misogyny, Self harm, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Outing

Minor: Cancer, Dementia, Cannibalism