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wordsareworlds's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
This book got off to a fine start, but quickly lost me in the ways it flattened its characters and mined the realities of police brutality for a thin urban fantasy plot while simultaneously made a complicit, religious bigot cop the ongoing love interest.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Murder, Toxic relationship, Infertility, Grief, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, and Violence
Moderate: Child abuse
Minor: Slavery and Blood
xcampuskiddo's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
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? No
2.5
While it was interesting to get a mystery story from the POV of a fairly unusual literary character, the pace was tedious and the detail were sometimes too irrelevant to the storyline for this book to be interesting from a plot perspective. I finished it because I was too far in to not finish it, but I don't have an interest in picking up the sequel.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Murder
Moderate: Police brutality and Toxic relationship
Minor: Gun violence, Child abuse, Blood, Colonisation, Slavery, and Alcohol
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