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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

2 reviews

jenpurlteach's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Addiction, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Confinement, Death of parent, Rape, Car accident, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Domestic abuse, and Mental illness

fedoranonymous's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.25

This book is billed as comedy. Fucking where? Is it the parts where Eleanor is horribly rude to service workers? Because that's not funny, it's infuriating. It's written to be infuriating. I have no idea where Penguin gets off billing this as a comedy.

It was a necessary book for me though. It deals with abuse, the cycles thereof, and healing. I cried, and thanked the book for making me cry. I hate this book as much as I love it.

It makes me feel a whole lot, so it must be good. It mostly made me feel like throwing the book at the wall, though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Eating disorder

Minor: Death of parent, Gore, Car accident, Child death, Death, Murder, and Vomit

So the main plot twist is

Eleanor's mother died trying to kill Eleanor and successfully killing Eleanor's baby sister Maryanne, and her phone calls are hallucinations.

Such a funny comedy Penguin! Eleanor is slowly revealed to have more and more self esteem and self abuse issues as the book goes on, to the point that it should be funny but is just sad. Please exercise caution when reading.