Reviews

Revenge of the Scapegoat by Caren Beilin

emmatarswell's review

dark funny reflective fast-paced

elyssaisntreal's review

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

olivefoil's review

challenging dark funny reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

alannahvanderoak's review

funny reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

thetomegnome's review

challenging dark funny hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

shmannas's review

reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

lmrising's review

emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

mccordian's review

5.0

A childhood wound is re-salted via USPS, so creative-writing-prof-on-the-no-tenure-fast-track Iris drops everything (but the package) to do some personal soul trampling. In Scapegoat, real life professor Beilin gives us both a passionate rant and an angry vaudeville act, all the while megaphoning from the text to her real life students that this is NOT how it’s done. And she really Does the splendid heck out of the Don’ts. Creator/creation and fact/fiction blur/burp into/out a sort of Journey to the End of the Dud Avocado… with (a real highlight) talking feet.

reginahafner_'s review

dark emotional 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? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Mental illness

laraperezcurran's review

3.0

Funny & surreal but I don’t think I totally got it lol. 3.5 stars:)