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amalas_bookstop's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Rape, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Classism
hungry_wombat's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Racism, Rape, Torture, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Sexual assault, Suicide, Blood, and War
Minor: Drug use, Mental illness, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Abandonment
jmariejones's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
The first two parts left me with so many questions. Part 3 was my favorite. I felt as if I couldn’t put it down once I had Mei’s perspective.
• Multiple POV
• Multiple timelines
Read on audiobook and would recommend a listen.
Graphic: Bullying, Violence, and War
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Suicide attempt, Sexual harassment, and War
Minor: Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Grief
machenn's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Death and Violence
Minor: Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Suicide, Xenophobia, and Alcohol
stephrand's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Child death, and Alcohol
Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Infertility, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Pandemic/Epidemic
lauren_lovestoread's review against another edition
3.5
Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, and Abandonment
ukponge's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Violence
nialiversuch's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Grief and Gaslighting
Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt
fkshg8465's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic
gwenswoons's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
I struggled a bit with the back third — the pacing of it overall and the use of the second person made it slower for me, and somehow it felt more practical: it landed more like the way the book needed to wrap up structurally than what needed to take place by emotional necessity. Ultimately it didn’t hit as deeply and personally as I wished, though as I said it’s totally excellent; I longed for more catharsis, more emotional outpouring perhaps, but that is also not the affect of the book or of the storytellers inside it.
Definitely recommend — I am curious about Goodbye, Vitamin now, though it make take me a while to get to Khong’s backlist. I’ll for sure take note of her future novels, if not immediately dive into them.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism