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nrogers_1030's review against another edition
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Cursing, Gore, Death, Violence, Blood, and Murder
Moderate: Confinement and Alcohol
Minor: Pedophilia, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Racism, Dementia, Suicide, Cancer, and Fire/Fire injury
author2223's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Dementia, Body horror, Gore, and Murder
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Trafficking, Torture, and Pedophilia
Minor: Rape and Fire/Fire injury
katelynprice's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Child death, and Suicide
Moderate: Cursing
Minor: Infertility, Rape, Grief, Miscarriage, Dementia, Gun violence, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Alcoholism, and Animal death
jelkebooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
When this book started off I was very quickly very invested in it. I thought C.J. Tudor just did an incredible job completely transporting you to this small town. The atmosphere was impecable. I also thought the inclusion of vampyres in a premise like this one, was incredibly interesting and really well executed. I was super intrigued to see how this mystery was going to unravel itself, especially because we relatively quickly made a big breakthrough in the case.
However, that being said this book also got stagnant very quickly. After that first breakthrough it takes until the very end for anything else to happen in this book. I did still think the tension with the vampyres was interesting, but ultimately I can only read about how the townspeople really fucking hate the vampyres and want to kill them no matter what a certain amount of times before it gets really repetetive and boring. So even though I was gripped from the start, I did find myself quite bored throughout most of this book.
Then the ending also felt a bit like a bit of letdown. The reveals were really well done, and honestly I didn't even see them all coming. I just feel like they all happened a bit too close to one another as they were packed in like the last 5% of the book. Some resolutions we didn't even get to see happen on page, we're just told about them afterwards. It felt a bit like a let down. And then we also get a little something that could potentially be a teaser for a sequel. I do have interest in that though ... So maybe that will be something to check out. Yeah, in conclusion I thought this book did some things really well but it left me just a bit too bored for me to fully root for it.
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Suicide, Physical abuse, and Racism
Minor: Drug use, Alcoholism, Dementia, Misogyny, and Pedophilia
Huge content warning for child loss!!!dogearedbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Child death, Child abuse, Gore, Murder, Death of parent, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Blood, and Car accident
Moderate: Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, Dementia, Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, Alcohol, Blood, Child death, Child abuse, Death of parent, Rape, and Gun violence