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mj_86's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Death, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault
Minor: Gaslighting, Child death, Torture, and Abandonment
imds's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Body horror, Kidnapping, Murder, Grief, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Child death, Torture, Violence, and Death
snakebyte180's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Moderate: Violence and Gore
Minor: Sexual harassment, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Kidnapping, and Blood
tori_borialis's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Murder, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Violence, and Gore
Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Child death
misshoney's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Torture and Murder
h_gall's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Moderate: Violence
Minor: Sexual harassment and Gore
geno's review against another edition
The tone is all over the place, and I can see some twist coming for a mile.
It's not for me, but I can see younger readers enjoying it.
Graphic: Torture and Violence
Moderate: Sexual harassment
apersonfromflorida's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Blood
Moderate: Sexual harassment, Death, and Sexual assault
Minor: Torture and Child death
abby_can_read's review
- 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
3.0
I have mixed feelings on this book. This book was better than I expected. I think Maehrer tried to hard to be funny in places. There was some character development and in-development.
Overall, this book kept me interested. I found the plot to be predictable, and the writing style got annoying in places. The worldbuilding was lacking in areas. The characters were fine.
I do plan to read the sequel.
Graphic: Blood, Murder, and Violence
Moderate: Death, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Death of parent and Torture
amyredfern's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Ugh ... Unpopular opinion but... It was just so disappointing. The premise of the book was fantastic, I just wish that instead of the 100 pages the author AB-solutely wasted in the middle of the book painstakingly eliminating one obviously-wrong perpetrator from another, she had actually created some character development of Evie and the Villain at the start of the book.
We missed really any context of the villain earning his reputation other than a lot of grunting and chopped-heada references, which were boring and unoriginal after the author burned through the joke 3 times in the first 50 pages.
The plot? The problem? The twist? Meh. It was... Okay. A little unbelievable. Daddy issues on steroids, pretty much. It's just... Sigh.
It was such a fun, different concept that just utterly lacked world-building and character development. I wanted to love it, but just couldn't.
Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment