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ju_harue's review against another edition
dark
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- 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
2.5
Foi interessante ver como ocorreu a história das gêmeas no outro mundo. Porém a escrita mais rebuscada, com requintes sombrios, me fez desfocar um pouco, tornando-a mais longa do que de fato é. No entanto, há ótimas reflexões sobre as imposições que muitas vezes os genitores podem vir a fazer na vida de crianças e como isso impacta e muito, repercutindo para sempre.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Abandonment
Moderate: Body shaming and Fatphobia
fafpaf0405's review against another edition
4.0
It's almost as if this book was written by a different author than the first. Enjoyed this one much more, more of a flow to the story, it was interesting and intriguing to learn about how Jack and Jill became the characters that we met in the first book. Definitely a redemption from book 1.
aaabeegui's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
- 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? It's complicated
4.5
lottie1803's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
annineamundsen's review against another edition
3.0
Written in a poetic/fairytale way. I very much like the language but the story felt a little unnecessary as we knew it from the first book.
nclcaitlin's review against another edition
3.5
Jack and Jill descend a staircase and enter another world.
Their parents (the worst ever) are only able to tell the twins apart by their personality.
Jillian was quicker, wilder, more rough-and-tumble and so is labelled the tomboy.
Jacqueline was slower, tamer, more cautious and was dressed as a princess.
But each of them are pressed into moulds without considering their own desires so they end up wanting what the other had.
Jacqueline wants to run, to play, to be free. Jillian wanted to be liked, to be pretty, to be allowed to watch and listen, instead of always being forced to move.
She had tried to make sure they knew that there were a hundred, a thousand, a million different ways to be a girl, and that all of them were valid, and that neither of them was doing anything wrong.
Marooned by the doorway in the Moors, they are each adopted by different men - the Master and the Doctor. The vampire's daughter, the mad scientist's apprentice.
McGuire knows how to get to the heart of the matter in such short novellas that pack such a punch and forces us to consider our conceptions and society’s perceptions.
Children are not formless clay, to be shaped according to the sculptor's whim, nor are they blank but identical dolls, waiting to be slipped into the mode that suits them best.
haleyisamess's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
bookdrag0n's review against another edition
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
emuhhhh's review against another edition
4.0
This one is a very light, barely there 4. It was a good story and it did hold my attention. In terms of length, this one felt like it was in a good spot where the first book felt too short. However, it switched what girl it was following with very little context so the lines between them were a little blurred. I also feel like this story should have come before the first book because knowing everything that happens in that one spoils the story.