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Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Car accident, Pregnancy, Alcohol
Minor: Drug use, Sexual content, Blood, Vomit
As Annie gets to know her great-aunt Frances through her diary, so does the reader, finding kinship in the girl's sudden empathy for someone she has never met
Keeping it spoiler free, the ending will absolutely surprise you, several times over and in several ways
Great read, highly recommend
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship
Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Pregnancy
Minor: Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Outing, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Toxic friendship
Moderate: Death, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy
Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gore, Infertility, Sexual content, Vomit
Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship
Minor: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Outing, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Death, Grief, Murder
Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship
Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Car accident, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Classism
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship
"‘Don’t worry, Annie, I’m not going to murder you.’
‘I appreciate that, Saxon,’ I reply. ‘I’m not going to murder you either.’ And then we both smile, because this is such a strange thing to say ten minutes after meeting someone for the first time."
There is no way that this book actually had over 500 pages. I started it yesterday and already finished and no I wasn't addicted to it. But I was addicted to some quotes in this book.
+ Funny scenes and interesting plot (I mean, a woman getting more and more crazy about her fortune telling? Sign me up!)
+ Really nice and cool quotes (or maybe I'm biased since one is about chess)
+ Alice in Wonderland reference (one can never do anything wrong with this, I'm a huge fan)
+ Toxic relationships (I have a soft spot for drama and yes — I like to torture myself by reading sad stories)
+ The main character WAS NOT stupid! (Can you believe it?!!)
+ Relatable moments (‘I can’t face Mum’s basement again without backup. Last week when I was cleaning it out there were spiders. Huge ones.’
- Mostly flat characters (more murder mystery and plot than anything else)
- No explanation for things or stuff that was confusing. Example; We get told that Frances isn't the forgiving kind, but in her diary entries we see something different. And also the way another person confirmed it too by saying she is quite forgiving while others wouldn't in the same situation. Is she forgiving or not??
- Boring ending (wasn't hard to find out who the murderer was and the ending was kinda meh)
- Too many repetitions (we get it who your prime suspect is and we don't need a re-telling of the diaries about one hundred times, just try to advance the plot!)
- Sometimes felt too slow (see above for reasoning)
- Even though the idea was good it felt like nothing special. Average the most. There just wasn't anything that made the book feel special. While reading I had the feeling (except the fortune telling) that it wasn't anything new from most thriller and mystery books.
- Sometimes we get new info, just for it to be superficial and not go into depth than it could be. There were so many other things that were interesting too while our MC tried to find out who the murderer is but unfortunately they are left again as fast as they were discovered. Why didn't we get to see more of the alphabetical sorted files and the bad stuff each person did? And we never got an explanation for Sam Arlington. The MC just decided it's not important and that she doesn't need to see other files or in general explore deeper.
Only 2 stars as it didn't feel as exciting as I hoped for it to be and it's less than average for me as most things were superficial and we got flat characters which I quite dislike. The ending was predictable too which made me bored for the last 15% to 20% that were left.
If you don't have high expectations for thrillers or in general don't think much about who the murderer might be, this could be fun to read. For me who seeks books that are standing out from the rest and really hates it when the murderer is some obvious person I couldn't quite enjoy it as much as I hoped to.
02. September 2024
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Murder, Toxic friendship
Moderate: Gun violence, Infidelity, Grief, Pregnancy, Gaslighting
Minor: Child abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Infertility, Sexual content, Blood, Vomit, Car accident, Alcohol
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Classism
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Addiction, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, Dementia
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship
Minor: Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Sexual content, Blood, Vomit, Dementia, Grief, Car accident, Gaslighting