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No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

14 reviews

jessicasonley's review

challenging emotional funny lighthearted sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Miscarriage, Abortion, and Pregnancy

incaisseoffire's review

challenging emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage and Grief

lucyka's review against another edition

2.0

Disappointed. The fragmented style was hard to read, the idea of the 'portal' never really made any point and then a random intense tragedy was thrown in halfway through as some kind of emotional blackmail. Honestly the more I think about it the worse it was.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

marla_a's review

emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Bullying

samarakroeger's review

challenging emotional funny reflective sad medium-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

this book is timely and prescient (in part two, please don't give up on it).  I had no idea what the second half of the book was going to be about, just that it was a novel in two parts.  Unlike some other books I've read this year where the first 80-100 pages are confusing and don't make sense (ahem, Piranesi), I actually found the internet references in the first half weirdly comforting and I flew through it.  I'd primarily recommend this for children of the 90s who spent the 2010s online.  This is a book about the internet written by someone who clearly has spent a lot of time online and has mixed feelings about it.  This level of nuance is missing from most books discussing the internet, which are often quite anti- or quite pro-social media.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Medical content

Moderate: Miscarriage, Grief, and Abortion

kstericker's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Minor: Ableism, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual assault, Police brutality, and Abortion

vinnyvince's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Read this if you want to break the loop. It will make you want to erase your social media presence, in the least patronising, cringey and boomer like way possible. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Pregnancy

Moderate: Medical content and Medical trauma

Minor: Ableism and Miscarriage

reader_in_the_meadow's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.25

No One Is Talking About This is a 2021 contemporary literary fiction novel by American poet, novelist and essayist Patricia Lockwood. The book consists of the novel in two parts and thee acknowledgements and has a total of 210 pages.

The main character of this story is a woman who is known for her social media presence. We, the reader, follow her on a journey through hard emotional times and her relationships. We learn of her view on the world and how social media plays a huge part in her life. Her insights on this also deliver good thinking inspiration for the reader itself.
The thing about the characters in this novel is that we do not get much to know about them besides what the woman tells us about them. That makes it a bit harder for me to talk about whether I liked them or not, but I would say that the characters were not boring or in any way forgettable. They all had their own little wars to fight and that made them individuals.
The writing was immaculate and I really really liked it. There are actually no chapters but each little text pieces that lead us through the story on a red thread. I would not describe this novel as wordsy but I am going to say that it is not easy to understand if you have a simple knowledge of English or rather how literature is written.
Even though I liked a lot in this book I think it is very confusing and comes close to being kafka-ish, which is not bad but rather gives it even more character.
I think this book can grow a very big fan base because it is a very modern and interesting piece of literature which will in my opinion be talked about for a long time. I will definitely follow what Lockwood does next because she has really enamoured me with this book.

XOXO Leon

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Medical content, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Miscarriage and Abortion

crystalmethany's review

emotional funny 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Ableism, Miscarriage, and Abortion

zarap's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Terminal illness

Moderate: Miscarriage and Abortion