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fatsss's review against another edition
challenging
dark
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
You know when you’re sad or you want to cry so you listen to sad music? This book is the sad music. Good book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Grief, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Terminal illness
hunkydory's review against another edition
emotional
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Grief, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, and Pregnancy
cassettetaped's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Cancer and Terminal illness
inceptionistbooks's review against another edition
Nothing wrong with it, it just didn’t catch my interest to want to keep reading. I might pick it up again at a later date.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Terminal illness
Minor: Suicide
williamgideon's review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
4.5
This book wasn't at all what I expected: a book about a trio of girls at a university who love poetry. It was more a about one of those girls and her childhood trauma and relationship with her parents. And I loved it. At first you may think it to be a classic "depressed mysterious not like other girls" book with flat characters and tired tropes, but the author breaks through that surface and seriously dissects the main characters life. This book tackles mother-daughter relationships and how grief affects and shapes a person throughout their life, as well as how to move away from that. It's a coming of age story and so much more and I absolutely loved it!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Self harm, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Suicide attempt
theweepingwillow_'s review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Had so much potential to be great
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Terminal illness
Minor: Drug use
thisissofiam's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
this is so NOT what i was expecting from this. i was kinda disappointed but i still thought the book was well written and made me think about my life and how i affect those around me <3
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Suicide attempt
definebookish's review against another edition
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-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
4.5
I thought Sleepwalking might be my second favourite kind of story, twisted and heavy with darkness. Actually it’s the one I love even more; a story of an unspoken need or longing fulfilled.
This is Meg Wolitzer’s debut, written while she was an undergraduate and published in 1982. Initially it reminded me of that meme that goes around about the eighties being closer to the sixties than they are to now – those early chapters feel noticeably more Bell Jar than, for example, My Year of R&R.
Eighteen-year-old Claire Danziger is a ‘death girl’, one of a trio who haunt the halls of their university campus dressed in black and immersed in the verses of their respective favourite female poet. Laura’s obsession is Anne Sexton, Naomi’s Sylvia Plath, and Claire’s the fictional Lucy Ascher, who – like Sexton and Plath – died by suicide some years earlier. But Claire is carrying another loss, and a relationship with an older student prompts her to take her obsession with Lucy to a new level.
This wasn’t what I expected at all, really. Or perhaps the first fifty pages were – I could sense teen me reading the opening chapters over my shoulder, drenched in patchouli and approving *very* much. But it’s a surprisingly mature book for an undergrad, contemplative and wise and understated.
I had anticipated more ‘death girl’ action, when in fact Naomi and Laura are secondary characters; this is very much Claire’s story. I didn’t anticipate it being so moving, or so hopeful. It is dark at times, but in a dreamy way rather than a morbid one. I felt lulled and a little spellbound by it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Terminal illness
lucyrosemack's review against another edition
dark
reflective
slow-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
3.25
Content Warnings
Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Domestic abuse and Drug use
luckykosmos's review against another edition
dark
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
I didn't quite know what to expect going into this. But I love stories about projections, about making people fit the holes in your life that they aren't meant for. I love stories about forcing ourselves to fit personas of who we want to be, and drawing the line between that and who we are. Watching these shells of people reforming themselves around grief and love, relearning how to person, spoke to me.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death, Terminal illness, Grief, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Suicidal thoughts