traa's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Eating disorder, Body horror, and Blood
Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Abandonment, Dysphoria, Mental illness, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Sexual content, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt
sofipitch's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Death of parent and Eating disorder
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Racism
ceallaighsbooks's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
“‘…Please to tell a story about a girl who gets away.’
‘Gets away from what, though?’
‘From her fairy godmother. From the happy ending that isn’t really happy at all. Please have her get out and run off the page altogether, to somewhere secret where words like happy and good will never find her.’
‘You don’t want her to be happy and good?’
‘I’m not sure what’s really meant by happy and good. I would like her to be free. Now. Please begin.’”
“Still, I wondered if the salt and pepper were really necessary—they seemed too cruel when it would be easier to despatch her by blowing out her flame before it grew, or by holding a mirror up to her wrinkled face and saying, ‘I don’t believe in you.’ But then, maybe ‘I don’t believe in you’ is the cruellest way to kill a monster.”
“Miranda went down barefoot, like Eurydice. She walked with her fingers spread over her face, because no one must see.”
- everything else by Helen Oyeyemi
- THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, by Shirley Jackson
- TELL ME I’M WORTHLESS, by Alison Rumfitt
- BABEL, by RF Kuang
- the original “Snow White”
- ALICE IN WONDERLAND, by Lewis Carroll
- Gwendolyn Brooks
Graphic: Body horror and Eating disorder
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt
mel_j's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Blood, Body horror, and Death
Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Death, and Death of parent
_azure76's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Blood
common_nonsense's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
3.25
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Grief, Eating disorder, Body horror, Racism, and Bullying
headachesince03's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Addiction, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Racism, Lesbophobia, Self harm, Death, Body shaming, Body horror, Hate crime, Dysphoria, Mental illness, Gore, Eating disorder, and Death of parent
Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Sexual content, Blood, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, Gore, Lesbophobia, Racism, Suicide attempt, and Suicide
Minor: Vomit, Mass/school shootings, Bullying, Alcohol, Stalking, Incest, Gun violence, Drug use, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Toxic friendship, Murder, and Xenophobia
hownoveljo's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Body horror, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicide
wholesomeandqueer's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.5
Moderate: Eating disorder and Death of parent
Minor: Body horror
morgiah's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Mental illness and Body horror
Moderate: Suicide and Blood