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sare1125's review
adventurous
emotional
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Sexual content
mariabacterium's review
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Beach read filled with unlikable characters, written so earnestly that you can’t help but adore them.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity and Sexual content
Moderate: Bullying and Alcohol
Minor: Eating disorder
rachelbetters99's review
emotional
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I enjoyed the read, but it's not something that will go down as particularly impactful. The characters aren't always likeable, but that's intentional, and I didn't mind following them through all their thoughts and flaws.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity
Moderate: Sexual content
jamiejanae_6's review against another edition
adventurous
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity and Sexual content
bookshelbs's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity
semm114's review
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Infidelity
yoojiin's review
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- 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
Overall a solid book, just wasn’t my style. It’s too fictional, the way all of the characters’ flaws come to light but get nicely wrapped into a bow at the end of the novel in the span of one or two chapters. I prefer Sally Rooney’s style of ending the book on an uncertain and ambiguous note because that’s just how life is.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity
krainacker's review
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
I want to like Emma Straub’s books more than I do. But I just — don’t. There’s something about a lack of character evolution that leaves me feeling grimy when I finish. Like how your fingers feel after you’ve visited a used bookstore that never wipes down the shelves. I am simultaneously exhausted by the narratives and in utter adoration of the writing style. I guess - I love how it reads, and hate what I’m reading about.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity
anb2300's review
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
- 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
3.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity
Moderate: Alcohol
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