objectively 5 stars in terms of the writing, the parallels between the two stories etc. but just not really the type of book i enjoy ig/not quite whatobjectively 5 stars in terms of the writing, the parallels between the two stories etc. but just not really the type of book i enjoy ig/not quite what i was expecting. i liked this review....more
"i hate myself for my immaturity, but old habits rarely go away entirely, and i can never fully escape myself"
2.5 hated but also grew to sort of love "i hate myself for my immaturity, but old habits rarely go away entirely, and i can never fully escape myself"
2.5 hated but also grew to sort of love this one? i think it might be like conversations with friends where i half hate read it but i still think about it months/years later and want to rate it a bit higher idk... even since i finished this a few hours ago i've bumped it up from 2 to a 3 stars lol
very mixed feelings about this book?? i was so close to dnfing at the start, and while I'm glad i read the whole thing, i don't know if i necessarily liked it. a shame bc i was expecting this book to become at the very least, a 5 star read, if not a favourite. but the book did grow on me as we went. the main character was incredibly unlikeable, but my sympathy/attachment for her grew as the book went on, and ofc i can appreciate her traumas/life experiences contribute to her personality/problems. also, being totally honest, in some ways she is v like me which makes me dislike her more lol. how she was treated by her mother, especially when she tried to come out - and her difficulties in grappling with her queer identity -were particularly heartbreaking.
however the thing i hated the most, and what really made me want to dnf/lowered my rating, was the depictions of mental illness - especially EDs - and how they were discussed. though tbf, i guess is relatively realistic - but nonetheless still triggering/problematic imo
things i did enjoy: explorations of culture, and being caught between two different ones; family, and complex mother/daughter relationships; multiple flashbacks across different time periods; the treatment centre (i think its an awful treatment centre but i enjoyed the storyline lol); messy characters and the reality of the impacts of trauma. i really appreciated the ending, and that she finally made progress etc - though i wish that didn't happen so quickly/as such a small part of the book and that it was fleshed out more.
i really liked this review- especially in the content of the narrator being unlikeable...more
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