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Adelaide by Genevieve Wheeler

4 reviews

maurapartridge's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Terminal illness and Vomit

haleysversion's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Cursing, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Sexual assault, Car accident, Death, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Grief, and Mental illness

molliundera_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Mental illness, Abandonment, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Vomit, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Infertility, Medical content, Rape, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content

joshlynjavier's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

3.0

i think reading new adult is just too jarring for me, especially from bouncing back and forth from stoic, nihilistic japanese literature to modern american lol. 

adelaide’s story is one that is shaped with mental illness and mental health struggles from everywhere around her, and it did kind of alarm me that i really related and resonated with her toxic mindset. this story serves as a warning that you can’t place other people’s needs above your own forever, and that your needs have just as much value as theirs. if grief was one of the main focuses of the story, i felt it could’ve been elaborated upon more.

also rory’s character is so unrealistic, and all the characterization in this story felt so forced. the nathalie stuff was also so hard to read, half of it felt like manic-pixie-dream-girl esque and the other half was just so depressing because adelaide’s difficult grief, envy, and guilt towards this girl was so real and brutal.  

for a debut novel, this was really well written. my main gripes were how “in-your-face” the writing was, i felt like i was getting spoon fed a lot of the main ideas and takeaways which i didn’t like. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Rape, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Self harm