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Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

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chavion's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

annegivings's review against another edition

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challenging dark tense

2.5

A difficult book with a dissatisfying ending. I’d prefer to know what happened!

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open_far's review against another edition

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4.0

very clever in the use of unreliable narrators to make us question which narratives are easier to tell, sell and occur more commonly in our culture, and are accepted.

I fell pretty hard for the first YA-like part of the book (it's telling what myths I'm willing to give power to :p ) so the rest was a sobering time. I found the characters quite easy to empathise with, probably because I have been a young girl and recognise the fraught attention of adult males during my early teens.

ginamacleod's review against another edition

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challenging dark slow-paced

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

4.0

Trust exercise is a book to read very closely. Slow to start but quick to turn everything on its head - nothing and no one are quite real - and characters are best interpreted as concepts rather than individuals. This book was highly unique & thought provoking, although at times overly verbose, hence the loss of a star.

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