Reviews

All These Bodies by Kendare Blake

cobaltbookshelf's review against another edition

2.0

2.5 stars

What I liked the most is atmosphere, this plot driven book with slow pacing but where didn't land for me especially was the ending.

amandalyn's review against another edition

3.0

The ending of this book was a let down. And I wanted it to be scarier for sure. But I’ve always loved the authors writing and it still really shined. Having grown up in small town Minnesota, the literal only complaint I had was when they said that the temp constantly drops to single digits. It’s not untrue, but temps drop to the negative in the winter. All the time.
I just wished there had been more of a resolution, more of a villain at the end. Something to tie it together. Then it would have been perfect.

19nkelly's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

fletcherrenn's review against another edition

2.0

very repetitive writing with nothing actually going on

ingrid_hennig's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

janagaton's review against another edition

3.0

Damn I really wanted to have an unpopular opinion about the ending because I really didn't want the negative reviews to be true. But alas.

the_reading_vampire's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

aileenfox20's review against another edition

2.0

It was an alright book not the best tho for I it took me a while to get into it and then when I did the interesting parts didn’t last long I feel like we didn’t get much of the story either

smartinez9's review against another edition

4.0

Riveting if a little anticlimactic—I’m not even sure I really liked it, but it was strange and twisted and wouldn’t let me out.

hexatrance's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

This had potential and I love an ambiguous ending but this didn't execute it right. It would have felt more ambiguous if it had actually given us more details, rather than less, to confuse the real/supernatural details more. Those details should have been with the other murders, which get lost in the murders of the Carlson's and became forgettable. Also no character felt developed. Michael wants to be a journalist but shows no passion for it and hardly any journalism takes place. The plot focuses on the interviews but there's too many artificial gaps in between them to draw it out long enough to create a whole book, and instead too much happens off the page. I think a short novella would have been creepier because it would require less of these drawn out pauses. I didn't understand the motivations for the town turning on them any more than I understood the motivations of the niceties and lack of urgency shown to Marie at the station. There was no build up to any of these because there was too much telling rather than showing. It made it feel like all side characters flipped at the flick of a switch to whatever mystery required. No one felt real, except the one character that was written to not be believed as real. It was all just meh, tropes that I like, but I've seen pulled off way better elsewhere.