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booksthatburn's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Sawyer is a careful but unreliable narrator. He faithfully tells what happened, but his idea of what is literally happening versus what he's merely convinced is happening leaves a lot of very unsettling possibilities open. By the end I settled on an answer, but part of me still thinks the second option is viable. It shook me on a fundamental level and I’m still thinking about it days later. The story is told mostly linearly, and those small deviations from linearity start to add up as Sawyer gradually decides to tell backstory when it becomes necessary (but usually well after it’s first relevant).
It’s fantastic, I loved every minute! I can’t recommend it highly enough.
Graphic: Grief, Murder, Child death, and Death
Moderate: Mental illness, Vomit, Violence, Gore, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide
Minor: Racial slurs, Medical content, Ableism, Sexual content, and Car accident
TW for Harry Potter reference (brief).pucksandpaperbacks's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Murder, Blood, Violence, Grief, and Death
Harry potter referencefoldingthepage_kayleigh's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Murder
Moderate: Grief
robertjgannon's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Graphic: Child death, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Torture
mar's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Murder, Violence, and Grief
Moderate: Animal death and Car accident
Minor: Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence
violet_pages's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Death, Murder, Violence, Blood, Child death, and Gore
Moderate: Grief and Animal death
Minor: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit
words_and_coffee's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Violence and Grief
readalongwithnat's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
4.0
Holy. Shit. What did I just read??? I feel like this was the perfect introduction to SGJ's work and I can't wait to read more.
Graphic: Grief, Violence, Blood, and Death
noelanig's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Death
Minor: Grief
leahrosereads's review against another edition
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
This wasn't a gory or gross horror, just incredibly dark, psychologically. I loved that! The characters are teenagers and come with all their teenager-ness and the MC, Sawyer is just a fascinating narrator.
Literally anything else I'd say could be viewed as a spoiler, so just read this!!
Moderate: Death and Grief