Reviews with content warning for Pedophilia - No One Belongs Here More Than You

I read this collection almost 4 months ago and still think about it (negatively, make of that what you will).

I’ve seen blurbs and other reviews that have called this “laugh out loud funny”, “tender”, “sexy”, and “feel-good” and I feel like we didn’t read the same book?

Please read the content warnings first, do not go into this blind thinking it’s a book of sweet or heartwarming stories.

Incest and pedophilia are common themes. Maybe the moral responsibility is on the reader? Because I didn’t feel judgement reflected in the characters/narrators or author. If so, that did not make this book “quirky” for me.

It felt like I was playing a game of Cards Against Humanity, and Miranda July is that player who puts down the extra inappropriate card just to watch another player have to read it out loud.

Two stars because a lot of the writing is actually really beautiful, out of context.

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laura_tofflemire's review

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rebeccadiv's review against another edition

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slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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i_have_worms's review

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emotional funny reflective fast-paced

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

4.5

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americattt's review against another edition

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emotional funny reflective fast-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

3.0

“We had loved people we really shouldn’t have loved and then married other people in order to forget our impossible loves, or we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.
Always running and always wanting to go back but always being further and further away until, finally, it was just a scene in a movie where a girl says hello into the cauldron of the world and you are just a woman watching the movie with her husband on the couch and his legs are across your lap and you have to go to the bathroom.”

favorite stories: this person + ten true things

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scholarschism's review

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fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? N/A
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

Bleak. Weirdly sexual throughout, like way more than I would have guessed. Complex representations of queer attraction but few people are actually gay? Some moments of interesting prose, but it was ultimately a chore to finish. I don’t think I will find myself looking back on these stories much, but maybe they’ll take on more interest in hindsight? I wonder if I just don’t “get it”… there were moments of resonance, but it overall felt mostly flat, to me

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cyb's review against another edition

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1.75

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northernblonde's review

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dark slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? N/A
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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