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directorpurry's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Graphic: Kidnapping
Moderate: Excrement and Blood
Minor: Suicide
knightreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Moderate: Confinement, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Violence, Suicide, Death, Blood, and Kidnapping
sinoclock's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Graphic: Kidnapping and Confinement
Moderate: Blood, Violence, and Body horror
Minor: Suicide, Stalking, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Excrement
conina's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Gore, and Kidnapping
dania_'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Moderate: Violence, Kidnapping, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, and Confinement
marieketron's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
The pacing of the story is also exactly right, and while there is a short montage scene of the two spending time together, we get plenty detailed scenes to fully buy into the sweet romance between the two. I was happy that this is also a relatively feminist tale in that the heroine is explicitly not a virgin and refers to masturbation, even if there is no on page sexual action. Loved the sister side character of Holly as well.
I might have rated the story slightly higher if it weren't for the narrator of the audiobook I listened to, whose inflection at the end of every sentence was mildly grating and I would have to get swept up by the story before I could tune that out. It's a mark in favour of the story that it was indeed able to sweep me along so well that I stopped noticing a voice quirk that might otherwise have meant I wouldn't finish the book in question.
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Medical content, Physical abuse, Stalking, and Vomit
Minor: Death of parent