Reviews with content warning for Gun violence - Reckless Girls

this book was so promising i’m so so sad 😭 i loved the atmosphere set up and i really cared about the characters throughout the whole thing

this suffered from the pretty little liars effect why are you introducing someone halfway through and telling me he’s bad and weird and scary

there was only once i was a little worried about him but it was so quickly resolved give me tension from the people i already cared so much about

like these people had such deep backstories which could lead them to do anything out of grief and terror

probably 90% of the way through something real happened that wasn’t them just like sitting down and drinking on the island

wtf was the shack in the woods???? wtf was this mysterious person who lived on the island??? i’ll never know

the island makes you crazy??? HOW !!! are you seeing things? are you having more violent thoughts throughout the day??? or are you just letting me know

it just didn’t follow through things would be revealed and i was like “ok”

jake and eliza have drugs!! okay?? these people brought enough bottles of wine for you all to drink 5 a day and you’re shocked they have MARIJUANA????

the ending did make me gasp a bit where was that throughout it all?? the story is built in the “before” segments of the book and nothing happens in the current day

i kept waiting but like all of the reveal at the end besides one part didn’t even matter because it was nothing they were just words they made me feel nothing!!

big spoiler:

LIKE WHAT WAS AMMA Trying TO TELL LUX WHEN THEY WERE DROWNING TOGETHER? WHY DID SHE LIE TO BRITTNEY??? WHAT DID BRITTNEY DO SO AMMA WOULD TELL EVERYONE THEY KNEW ELIZA

still 2.75 because the backstories were great, there was some hints of good foreshadowing, the setting was fun, and i loved Lux, Britt, Amma, and Eliza (Nico was an ass from page 5)

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greatexpectations77's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I liked this story and really any one where the girlies fight back. I liked how the story all came together, and I was really interested in the fictional island. Lux is a wild name for a character, though haha

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adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Great! The setting was very vivid and the motive was believable.

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tdubs57's review

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adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

Was just kinda meh? I didn’t hate it, wasn’t excited by it either? Somehow wasn’t what I was expecting it to be either. The action scenes moved so quickly it felt like whiplash and the rest of the book felt slow to me. I went like a week without picking it up. Like there was a lot to unpack with this story and it’s many characters and yet I still feel like something was missing. These characters are messy as hell. I think the lesson here is don’t travel with someone you just met, ya know, stranger danger.

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