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True Story by Kate Reed Petty

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lowri_'s review against another edition

tense fast-paced

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

5.0

“…I don’t think you ever really overcome adversity. I think you just figure out how to carry it along with you and continue on your way”

I did not expect this to be so good since I bought it blindly along with two other (meh) novels.

I’m a whore for writing styles and how they fit the story. This didn’t only deliver but smashed it. So so good and enjoyable even though it deals with some difficult and very visceral images and themes.

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mmccombs's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

What an interesting book! The construction was creative and the themes were so complex I already know I’ll be thinking about it for a long time. Each character was compelling and each “part” was so strong, especially in concert with one another. The audiobook performance was also quite good, so this was overall just a fabulous experience, highly recommend!

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spellboundchapters's review against another edition

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Life’s too short to read books I’m not enjoying. ✌️ Been thinking about dnf-ing this one for a while and I finally had enough. Thank you to all the reviews that spoiled the ending, I’m so glad I didn’t read to that point because I know it would’ve made me extremely mad…
I usually like when books use mixed media, but I hate the structure of this book so much — I read 4 out of the 5 parts and we haven’t found out anything about the main storyline since the first part? The last 3 were just so useless and I struggle to see why the author would tell these side plots, even after finding out what the twist is. Personally, it made me lose all of my initial interest. 😔

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eemilycolleen's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

the confidence this story has….. i am SPEECHLESS. equal parts fun and horrifying and ridiculous and devastating, and each separate part so, so excellent. MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!! what the FUCK

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