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The Prison Healer, Volume 1 by Lynette Noni

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m_88_k's review against another edition

I’m so sad because the blurb sounded so good! 😩 But, it made me believe that the trials would be the main thing, and it was just NOT. I only got around 45% into it but until then there’s just one trial. And that one was just rushed past. I don’t even know what the main thing of this story really is, because up until 45% at least it was just a whole lot of nothing.

To be fair, I listened to it on audiobook and I was VERY annoyed by the narrator. The eleven year old boy sounded like a five year old. I thought he was quite a bit into to the book until it was disclosed he was eleven. And also, the FMC was just so annoying? The overly repetitive inner monologue of “Don’t. Let. Her. Die” made me go crazy.

This what simply not for me and I’m just so disappointed because I really thought I would like this.

rgk87's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

janacc's review against another edition

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adventurous tense fast-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? No

3.0

comença fluix (entenem a la 1a que les condicions de vida són dures, no cal dir-ho a cada paràgraf, thank you), però quan comença a haver-hi més plot a part de la vida a la pressió millora.

Ràpid, enganxa i, tot i que hi ha plotwists previsibles, algunes coses si eren més inesperades.

Bo per llegir algu per passar el temps i descansar :)

thenewreadingnook's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

No notes, not ONE note

viki_p26's review

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adventurous fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

wtf i did not expect the ending🤌😭 what even happen, and when..??

kittydouglas's review against another edition

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adventurous dark hopeful medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.5

mariahistryingtoread's review against another edition

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1.0

This book makes absolutely no sense.

More to come, but to be perfectly honest I suspected it'd be bad when I saw it was dedicated to Sarah J. Mass.

thedigitalbookworm's review against another edition

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slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Mixed feelings. Overall the book was enjoyable. The story was great, the writing as well. I did feel it was strongly on the YA side, almost childish at times. The trials were just stupid. The middle of the book also dragged. However at picked back up at the end and wow that twist at the ending holy cow did not see that coming!!! Overall a solid read with some issues.

jordangerold's review against another edition

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adventurous dark tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.5

cepbreed's review against another edition

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dark medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This book disappointed me in the beginning, I’d say up until 60% in I wasn’t hooked. It’s all so cliche, the most classic YA tropes converging in one novel. You’d think that’d at least make it entertaining from the get go but it just felt so overly familiar there was no intrigue left to get me invested. I will say that once the action picked up I couldn’t stop reading (but I was also on a plane so it’s not like I had many other options). Naari is the best character in my opinion, what a badass. Kiva and Jaren I could honestly care less about. Speaking of Jaren, what kind of name is that in a fantasy setting (yes I know it gets explained but still). Only one character actually annoyed me rather than being subjected to indifference: Tipp. I HATE written stutters with such a passion and I don’t know why.

The myriad of plot twists weren’t always the most creative

(I mean Jaren as the prince was obvious early on)

but the last twist was lacking in the opposite sense. The earlier twists were predictable thanks to tenants of the genre, but the last one lost me. I mean there was hardly any build up. Of course Kiva

has to be a “chosen one” of some sort but I prefer her as a healer only, but that may change if I read the second book.

Recently I’ve had such an issue with never continuing series, there are just too many books I want to read. To my credit I started this thinking it was a standalone.

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