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La casa dei cadaveri

Jeneva Rose

3.66 AVERAGE

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

i liked the story itself, it was fast paced and kept me interested. my only complaint is the way some of the chapters were written, they just didn’t feel natural or like they flowed at all. i also feel like there were things brought into the story that we don’t really get closure on. overall a decent thriller.
dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The book was gripping and I was intent on finding out what happened, but the writing was so fluffy and slow and reused a bunch of words repeatedly and also added a weird cheesy romance and everyone was kind of saying weird platitudes all the time. Between the meat of it was so much long irrelevant detail and filler. Also Beth is one of the most unlikeable characters I’ve read for a long time, and I didn’t love any of the other ones either. The twists were predictable, but there were a few moments that my jaw dropped. Also the narrator that did Laura had such an annoying voice. 
adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Bad.
mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot

I was neither over or under whelmed by this. It was just okay.

However I was surprised by the twist ending as I genuinely thought that
the dad was going to come back and attempt to kill his children
up until the end when I thought it was going to be
Lucas
. So it got me good there!

I struggled to connect with Beth, despite also being an eldest sister yet I really liked Nicole and was really hoping she'd push through her addictions.

Overall, it was okay. I didn't enjoy the writing much but I was surprised by the twist!
dark mysterious tense
adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I like being inside the characters’ heads, it helps immerse me in their world. This is probably why I didn’t catch the twist! 

I gave it 3.75 rather than 4 stars because the ending was meh, but I think that about most books for some reason. I have not come across a twist ending yet that has really blown me away. I like Jeneva Rose’s writing style however and am looking forward to reading more of her work! 

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mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes