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feralbookwife's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Grief, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship
lyshbish'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
1.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Death of parent
micahp'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
2.0
This was disappointing to read after Broder's Milkfed, with the plot and characters needing more fleshing out and significantly more editing.
Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Miscarriage, Death of parent, and Pregnancy
bree_klass'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? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Stalking, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship
cheye13'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
2.0
Unlike many earlier readers, I didn't pick this up for hot mermaid sex; I picked this up because those earlier readers said it was a wild ride. It disappoints on both fronts: first of all, the merman sex, while indeed hot, doesn't happen until a full halfway through the book, and is preceeded by quite a bit of terrible human sex. Second, it was more realism than it was ridiculous.
This novel did help me narrow down my ennui of millennial literary fiction. So much of that niche relies on "shock" fiction, but the "shock" is through explicit realism, which isn't shocking at all when you've lived it. Tragic public bathroom hookups, terrible first-anal-attempt stories, graphic discussion of suicide – I can accidentally overhear all that in a nightclub line on a weeknight.
Graphic: Animal death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood
Moderate: Addiction, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Self harm, Vomit, Medical content, and Abortion