Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender

5 reviews

jackbifrost's review

mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Eating disorder, and Infidelity

Minor: Death, Vomit, and Toxic friendship

saskiahill's review

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity

Moderate: Grief and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Self harm and Toxic friendship

radfordmanor's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, and Toxic friendship

sssssoup's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

Okay so. What the fuck.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Eating disorder, Infidelity, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Cursing, Death, and Toxic friendship

seawarrior's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.0

This is a really odd story, but one I practically fell into, as I read it in the course of one evening, only pausing to eat dinner. After finishing it, I'm left with a kind of melancholy emptiness. The most striking theme in this story to me is one of grief, both for youthful ignorance lost, and for realizing you never found the words to unlock your family members, the same people who sat alongside you and spoke to you daily for years upon years, and never really got to know the most important pieces to them, until suddenly you had run out of time. As confused as this book made me feel during some chapters, I think those are pains most of us can relate to, although we wish we didn't.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Infidelity, Medical content, Dementia, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Eating disorder, Sexual content, and Alcohol