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sleepyriv'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? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, and Drug use
Minor: Adult/minor relationship
morgancleaver'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? No
3.5
Graphic: Suicide and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, and Grief
brougham_is_elite's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Suicide and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Grief, and Stalking
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness
phantomgecko's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
The question of why these girls killed themselves seems kinda straightforward? They were confined to a house that was actively decaying around them with severely mentally ill parents.
That wasn't really the point though.
The book was a fascinating view into the perspective of boys that idolize and idealize teenage girls.
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Confinement, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Stalking
dennyiii'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? No
3.75
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
_dom_'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Sexual content and Stalking
Minor: Adult/minor relationship
brianna2811'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? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, and Alcohol
Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Medical content, Dementia, and Stalking
ppp's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Self harm, Suicide, Grief, Stalking, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, and Religious bigotry
Minor: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Blood, and War
mo0ma's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
I didn’t like how voyeuristic it felt, but I think voyeurism was in some sense the purpose of the author, and I’ve come to realise that I’ve been just as voyeuristic as the characters by having read the book at all. Still, upon reflection, I realise that I didn’t really have much of a choice in this regard. The voyeurism of the narrating boys was a perspective pushed onto me, and it gave me no opportunity nor many resources to understand and appreciate the characters that I actually wanted to—the Lisbon girls. Even the ending focuses on the reflections the boys have about themselves; the Lisbon girls, although staged in the centre, have been staged artificially, illuminated in the light of the boys’ fantasies, romanticisation, and introspection. The girls become tools for the boys to understand themselves, empty shells for the boys to fill with their own conjecture and wonder, rather than full beings.
Perhaps this irony and/or this dynamic is actually a tool to criticise the boys, and the other characters—neighbours, acquaintances, medical professionals—in the book who are not sympathetic to the Lisbon girls but rather eager to deconstruct and discuss them. If that is the case, then I think it would be a very good narrative, and I have thus given the author the benefit of the doubt in my rating (which would be higher if I could be sure it was what the author intended to do).
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
theatomicblonde22's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Racism, and Alcohol
Minor: Eating disorder