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finished coup de grace by sophia ajram, and I don't know if "enjoyed" is the right word for this because it's a very heavy book, but I'm glad I read it and i'm going to be thinking about it for a long while. The ending absolutely sold me on the book though--I've seen people who hated it, and while like, I can technically see their point, I think it was the absolute right ending for the book.

it is a book about depression and suicide (I think someone described it as a meditation on those things, which is probably the most accurate description), so definitely check in with yourself before reading

#suicide tw #suicide #self harm tw #self harm #was looking for analysis because it's. such a book.#and instead found a review that pissed me off so much.#accusing the book of “glorifying” self harm and the protagonist of being “pretentious” in the way he talked about... hating his life?#and being suicidal?#which like. putting aside the fact that I'm no longer accepting 'pretentious' as a criticism of a book unless you can prove it's actually #pretentious and not just uses some long words sometimes or makes references to other literature #it definitely did not glorify self harm.#it didn't glorify anything. this was a deeply dark book about a man who wants to kill himself #and the trigger warning at the beginning explicitly warns about the self harm and suicide and encourages readers to seek help #but because the narrator of the book didn't turn to the reader and say 'by the way it's bad to hurt yourself and i shouldn't have done that #it's glorifying self harm???#god. okay rant over #mary emma talks #i shouldn't read reviews probably but i recommended this to some people and then was like 'wait but what if actually it's a shit book'#a fear i often have after recommended a book that's not quite normal #but also this is the group chat where someone else recommended The Push so maybe i can have some faith #that even if they hate this book they won't be like 'actually that's fucked up that you even recommended this'#so endeth the tags

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