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discoseamonster's review
challenging
dark
slow-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? Yes
2.5
As a novel: 1 star, a nightmarishly convoluted mess of unlinked ideas and nonsense.
As an audiobook, listened to like an unhinged women's rambling of poetry and prose with occasional flashes of beautiful genius: 3.5 stars
Props to Angela Goethals narration
As an audiobook, listened to like an unhinged women's rambling of poetry and prose with occasional flashes of beautiful genius: 3.5 stars
Props to Angela Goethals narration
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, and Drug use
Minor: Vomit
mcdal's review
Reading this gave me the same feeling I had when watching the movie Limbo (1999) and I mean that in the best way and worst way possible
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Drug abuse, Incest, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Excrement, Vomit, and Cannibalism
Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, and Abortion
alli324b21's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
I picked this up because the blurb on the back - “like something you read in the underside of a freeway overpass” - reminded me of Alice Isn’t Dead.
It was dark and disjointed. It definitely felt like a fever dream. I know people like this girl; not vampires (are there even vampires, really?), but people that seem to be stumbling blearily from hangover to near death encounter and back again. The whole book feels hazy and desolate.
I wished for MORE from the book. I guess more answers, but that’s not the point.
It was dark and disjointed. It definitely felt like a fever dream. I know people like this girl; not vampires (are there even vampires, really?), but people that seem to be stumbling blearily from hangover to near death encounter and back again. The whole book feels hazy and desolate.
I wished for MORE from the book. I guess more answers, but that’s not the point.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
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