I feel like this books could potentially be triggering for people with eating disorders. There are so many examples given around weight loss. It also talks about eating habits so carelessly and moralises food choices by associating certain foods with good habit/bad habit labels. The book explicitly tells you to think to yourself every time you eat a cookie "this is not what healthy people do, this is a bad habit" and I feel like that's just a slippery slope.

I‘m still having some trouble suspending disbelief that there is a gothic boarding school full of conventionally attractive teens in the middle of purgatory lol but I‘m trying to enjoy this nonetheless

Did anyone listening to the audiobook notice that there seems to be a change in the tone of the audiobook from chapter 11 to 12 or am I crazy?

One thing that kind of rubbed me the wrong way about this book is that June is always comparing herself as a child to Hannelore who is clearly depicted as being on the autism spectrum. So it seemed heavily implied that June considers herself to be neurodivergent as well, when she considers her “fits” from the past. I just found it strange then that she doesn’t really seem to struggle with any aspect of being neurodivergent as an adult. Obviously she would have had developed coping mechanisms and learned how to mask symptoms, but even in private or in stressful situations, she seemed to be acting pretty neurotypical. I don’t know, I could be missing something, but it felt odd to me and I was wondering what others thought about it.