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No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

6 reviews

kirkspockreads's review

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Reader, I cried.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexual assault, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Gun violence and Abortion

traa's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Cursing, Drug use, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Mass/school shootings, Cultural appropriation, and Deportation

rory_john14's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Medical content, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Medical trauma, Abortion, and Alcohol

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Rape, and Classism

ailerua's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child death, Chronic illness, and Abortion

Minor: Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Mass/school shootings, and War

breauseph's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-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

My greatest hope is that readers believe this book. I've been working in digital media for ten years, and the accuracy and clear-sightedness with which Lockwood manages to portray what it's like to be a content creator, to be Extremely Online, was surreal, particularly in the moments when it felt like the narrator was scratching at the inside of her own skull, trying to figure out whether her thoughts were her own, trying to understand what a legacy means when THIS is what you do for a living. Also spookily accurate was the second half of the book, the effect of tragedy and real, breathing life on your thoughts, your sense of legacy. This was catharsis. I loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Grief, and Medical trauma

From my perspective, this book does a good job of celebrating disability and difference. There is a key character with a serious genetic disorder who is cherished, admired, loved, and encouraged for exactly who she is.

saturnsierra's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Infertility, Misogyny, Sexism, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Abortion