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Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin

23 reviews

queencleo's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Little Shop of Horrors but make it Irish and creepy and weird.
delicious.

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rorikae's review against another edition

4.0

dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

"Eat the Ones You Love" is a strange book but also delightful in its own odd way. It has body horror, trying to find your place in the world, and a sentient plant. It's quite slow and mostly character driven but if you are interested in something sapphic with weird plants and characters trying to find their place in life then I would reccomend it. I'm a little bit confused by the ending but as a whole, I think it's an intirguing book with a great sense of place, creeping horror, and commentary on suburbia.

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hedgewilde's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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kds247's review against another edition

4.75

dark funny reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The Plant: “I’m just a baby” 🥺

This was one of my favorite reads this year. It had a slow, creeping horror that underlined this beautiful story of going back to your hometown, feeling directionless and drowning in nostalgia. It truly did live up to “queer little shop of horrors in Ireland but the plant is in love (obsessively) with the shop owner”.

The writing was gorgeous and very atmospheric. The author describes things so uniquely that I had to make a bunch of highlights. Also the combination of first and third person point of view telling the story really made it feel like Joe in You. Which makes sense since the narrator is a very similar character.

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measlibrary's review against another edition

2.0

dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I wanted to enjoy this so badly but was bored & confused by the end of it.

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nyssarose's review against another edition

4.0

challenging funny tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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midsummerbri's review against another edition

4.0

dark tense slow-paced

Do the audiobook!!! If you look at the reviews so many complain about pacing but the audiobook reviews are higher. The narration is so good and menacing and really makes the book.

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