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Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins

48 reviews

boba_n_books's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

A mediocre book, in my opinion. Not great but not bad, either! I enjoyed parts of it but then felt like a lot of the book was filler and not necessary. There was a nice twist at the end, though!

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siebensommer's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

men talking about world war II gives me hives.

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beckyremillard's review against another edition

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adventurous tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Lux is looking for adventure with her boyfriend, Nico. They meet two girls, Amma and Brittany, who want to charter Nico’s boat to explore an island a few days from Hawaii. Another couple with a larger boat arrive shortly after them and they all hang out. Drama ensues after a few days and things start to take a darker turn.

75-80% of the book was slow and uneventful. Nothing really happened until the last bit of the book. It was interesting enough but I was trying to power through more than I was enjoying the story.

I wasn’t expecting Eliza to be Chloe. But since Chloe was introduced so late it was obvious she was going to play a role on the island.

Also, I didn’t love the ending where everyone just gets murdered. There are “reasons” that they decided to murder, but they were flimsy and just meh to me.

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erinmjustice's review

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adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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taelights's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious 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

2.0

This book was such a slow burn and didn't even have that good of a payoff. Basically nothing happens other than relationship drama until the last 2 hours of the book. There were some slightly creepy moments I guess if you squint but honestly I felt this wasn't creepy at all and barely qualified as a thriller until the last hour of the audiobook but even then…

The writing was good and it was interesting enough to listen to during work but if I had read the physical book I probably would have definitely dnf it.

Also the whole twist of the story is built on a giant plot hole so…. yikes.

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