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rewatchrereadrewind's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Infidelity, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Drug use
livwestland's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Infidelity and Toxic relationship
Minor: Confinement, Eating disorder, and Stalking
jenk2020's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
That ending... eye roll.
Graphic: Confinement
Moderate: Sexual content
sarahhbo's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
I don’t matter, you don’t matter. To think we do is just marketing.
This book was a little boring and a little sad, but an interesting look into the main characters life and reflections. It had a blunt but lovely writing style. There is a turn at the end that threatens to make the plot interesting, but ultimately falls flat.
Minor: Confinement and Drug use
mangofandango's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
The narrator is frustrating and hard to read sometimes. She is irritating in the same way the cultural scripts and obsessions she stews in are irritating, her lens so cloudy with shame and body hatred and fear of aging that everything comes out sort of...gross and weird like it is inside her own head. It both makes me feel sorry for her and makes me want to...redirect her in some way. For all the sexy presentation of this book in premise and sort of lothario-looking cover, this isn't really a sexy story. The narrator is preoccupied by sex, but her experience of it in real life is always, again, sort of told in an off-putting way and she experiences it in ways that are more disappointing and self-conscious than anything else. She's also like, deeply weird about a lot of things...it goes some places I did not expect, and I guess that's all I will say to avoid spoilers.
I appreciate that it's both a literary-feeling and a light-feeling read, it was fun and clever and the allusions to Lolita are interesting to consider. There's some great lines and good, thoughtful stuff in here and I mostly enjoyed reading it. I just don't know where I land on how to feel about it, when all is said and done.
PS: there should be a content note here for various flavors of suspect, loaded, problematic sexual dynamics and situations, as this is a story about sex and power, gender, consent, etc. and like, a lot goes on?
Graphic: Confinement, Infidelity, and Sexual content
Moderate: Fatphobia
tomato_bisque'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? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Confinement, Infidelity, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, and Fire/Fire injury
Main character is unlikeable but it does highlight the worst aspects a lot of women feel about themselves and other women. All the other characters are unlikeable and it works.kris386's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Suicide attempt, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, and Alcohol
Minor: Excrement, Vomit, and Pregnancy
basicbookstagrammer's review against another edition
- 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: Adult/minor relationship and Infidelity
Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Confinement, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol
Minor: Kidnapping