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vannahcabana's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Mental illness and Medical content
taliatalksbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Infidelity
meganpbennett's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
The novel isn't exactly as described, since a third of the story takes part before the family trip to Antarctica, and it's a little hard to follow, at first, since it's only later revealed that it's Bee creating the story from a dossier she received about the few weeks before Bernadette disappears, causing the perspective to drastically change and the reliability of the narrator to shift from 'unreliable' to 'complete fiction'.
However, that's what makes this book work, and the fact that we lose that shifting, epistolary story exactly when Bernadette disappears, thoroughly weakening the last 50-100 pages, and causing it to lose a star.
Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Abandonment
storykath's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Infertility, Infidelity, Medical content, and Grief
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Car accident, and Alcohol
berniemcbear's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical content
Moderate: Drug use
Minor: Racism
teresareads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Infidelity and Mental illness
Moderate: Forced institutionalization and Medical content
Minor: Drug abuse and Suicidal thoughts
sonyareadsbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Mental illness and Medical content
Minor: Fatphobia, Miscarriage, Racism, and Suicide