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directorpurry's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Blood, and Stalking
Moderate: Physical abuse, Suicide, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Fire/Fire injury
hannavaistila's review against another edition
1.0
Moderate: Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship
bookedbymadeline's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Animal death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicide, and Pregnancy
Minor: Confinement and Infertility
pbraue13'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
3.5
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, and Toxic friendship
celticthistle'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? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, and Gaslighting
carojust's review against another edition
- 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
3.0
The story shifts between Elodie's POV as a baker's wife, and her letters to her friend Violet. It starts plain and quite boring, unravels very slowly, and then drops the plot twist over a few pages in a nightmarish daze.
The main theme is obsession, the need to live as someone else, and steal their life, their love, their intimacies. It's a heavy focus on masochistic, degrading fantasy, born from boredom, neglect, and Elodie's invisibility as a woman and sexual being.
The writing is one long fever dream that gets more twisted and confusing as you go. It was hard for me to find footing, which is probably purposeful. Even the time period was hard for me to figure out. This kind of verbose, vague inner monologue writing style often loses me, but give it a try if you're into that, as well as really demented characters.
Graphic: Body horror, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic
jennikreads's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexual violence, and Violence
Minor: Pregnancy
ambermariebee's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.25
Graphic: Infidelity and Violence
ciwanski'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: Infidelity and Sexual content
erisouls's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, and Abandonment
Moderate: Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship