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All the Bad Apples by Moïra Fowley-Doyle

10 reviews

cassie_books8's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Homophobia, Abandonment, Death of parent, Death, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Abortion, Grief, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, Child death, and Rape

luckydory's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.25

Loved the idea, premise, and political message of this story. I enjoyed most of the book but for some reason I STRUGGLED to finish the final 1/4. I read as an audiobook, maybe that was why I felt sort of lost?... I wanted to finish it, and glad I did because the author end note from 2018 to learn just how much of this story (horrifically) is real was fascinating and also inspiring.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Pedophilia, Grief, Child death, Homophobia, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Rape

alissa_m's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Bullying, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Lesbophobia, Pregnancy, and Suicide

Minor: Biphobia, Outing, and Rape

uncreativeoops's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

Such an important story, based on actual historical sources. I loved the mix of fairy tale tropes and contemporary road trip. The writing was also gorgeous, I didn't want to stop reading. Some of the plot twists were pretty obvious and the message was a bit too spelled out for me (although thats a general thing in YA that annoys me) and I feel the banshee concept had more potentual than was in the end used, but all in all a very enjoyable read (also enraging, frustrating and sad, but that doesn't take away from the enjoyment).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Bullying, and Outing

Moderate: Sexual assault, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Rape

Minor: Suicide

offbrandclubsoda's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Possible spoiler - read if you want to know what chapters to skip for a specific CW:

Detailed depiction of rape/incest in Ch. 18
Abortion and anti-choice propaganda/experiences in Ch. 30

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Abortion, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Incest

Moderate: Bullying, Hate crime, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Suicide, and Outing

Minor: Vomit, Infidelity, and Miscarriage

karapillar's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Bullying, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Abortion, Biphobia, Blood, Death of parent, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Pregnancy, Suicide, Vomit, Misogyny, and Outing

annarose_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

tw: rape, incest, child abuse, religious abuse and trauma, homophobia, pregnancy and abortion and stigma surrounding all of these 

a beautiful novel that illustrates how generational trauma impacts the present. haunted by ghosts, banshees and a curse that's threaded all through her family's history, Deena struggles with her family's (read: her very religious father's) views on her coming out as a lesbian, only for her sister Mandy to drop the news of the family curse and then disappear, presumed dead by everyone but Deena. She sets out to find her sister, learning more about her family, past and present, along the way. this is a story of pride, of personal power, and how institutions, societal expectations (and men, lets be honest) will do everything in their own powers to keep us down.

the author's note at the end mentions how some of the religious child abuse in this book is based on real events and real places. i loved this book but please do take care when reading if any of the topics mentioned are triggering 💚

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Child abuse, Incest, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Pregnancy

moodreaderlesbian's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

When I packed this book to take with me for visiting family over the holidays I didn't remember what I'd read it would be about when I bought it. I started reading it in order to avoid family drama and this was the perfect book to do so, I read another family's drama to ignore my own. I could not put this book down and read it in 4 days even though I'm easily distracted and a slow reader.
This book was more mysterious and dark than what I'm used to and what I expected but the cover did warn me it would be like that so that was on me. Nevertheless, the story was very intriguing and to quote Captain Holt from B99: "I didn't know what was happening, and then I thought I knew what was happening, but what I thought I knew was happening wasn't what was happening." 
Since having found sapphic books I can not bring myself to read books that don't involve any wlw characters or story lines and this one was the perfect example of how you can write a story with a sapphic character without the main topic being a wlw romance. 
All in all I highly recommend All the Bad Apples but I advise everyone to check out the trigger warnings because it discusses and mentions very heavy issues.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Blood, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Rape, and Suicide

Minor: Alcohol and Miscarriage

stelepami's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Child death, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Incest, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, Outing, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

gaylien420's review against another edition

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

4.0

So oof... This one was a very, very hard read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Child abuse, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexism, and Suicide