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3.56 AVERAGE
3.56 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Välskriven, spännande på flera sätt, men jag fick något annat delvis än vad jag trodde jag skulle få…
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
3 stars. This was a quick read but nothing really happened. It’s told from 8 different perspectives and they all blend together so the twist in the end leaves no impact
Yaaaaawwwwwnnnnn...I'm sorry, but stuff was supposed to be happening in here?
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Spoopy cult mystery—very atmospheric. I appreciated the style quite a lot.
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Minor: Murder
Different, and not necessarily in a bad way. I love creepy cult books, but particularly on the YA side of things, they tend to follow a very predictable pattern; this book definitely breaks out of that pattern in interesting and unexpected ways, but in ways too that left me with a shaky sense of their world. We know that the nine girls at the center of the book decided to break away from the rest of the cult and live in their own cabin together. We know that they were beaten for this transgression--that corporal punishment for transgressions is the rule of law in Havenwood--but, after accepting their punishment, they were permitted to stay in their private cabin. Why? If this is a cult, why don't we get a real sense of the rules--apart from some passing references to rules about shunning the outside world and sex of any kind being forbidden--or the tactics of control being exerted on its population? If a compelling reason to remain in the cult is the promise of religious salvation, what kind of dogma do the cultists abide by? Perhaps I'm nitpicking slightly, as the mystery of the missing girl--an absence that is never suggested to be linked to the fact that they are in this cult--is the real point of the book, but the lack of firm foundation into this world was frustrating to me.
This is also an extremely short book at fewer than 300 pages in verse--and it had far, far too many POVs. There are eight girls in the titular "wolfpack" (a ninth, Rose, is the missing girl), all named after plants (Violet, Poppy, Willow, Oleanna, etc.), all of whom receive some kind of POV, and the end result is that I had no idea who any of these girls were as individuals, except for the two who were in a secret relationship with each other, and Daisy, who was the youngest. I much preferred the sections of the book that were narrated from a communal point of view, and would have preferred either that the book be exclusively written like that or had a much, much smaller cast of girls. (Though the signaling of POV sections with beautiful artwork of the flowers/plants that coincided with the POV character's name was very lovely to look at.)
Tl;dr: breaks the mold in interesting ways and has some very beautiful, unflashy verse, but needed a lot of help in certain areas.
This is also an extremely short book at fewer than 300 pages in verse--and it had far, far too many POVs. There are eight girls in the titular "wolfpack" (a ninth, Rose, is the missing girl), all named after plants (Violet, Poppy, Willow, Oleanna, etc.), all of whom receive some kind of POV, and the end result is that I had no idea who any of these girls were as individuals, except for the two who were in a secret relationship with each other, and Daisy, who was the youngest. I much preferred the sections of the book that were narrated from a communal point of view, and would have preferred either that the book be exclusively written like that or had a much, much smaller cast of girls. (Though the signaling of POV sections with beautiful artwork of the flowers/plants that coincided with the POV character's name was very lovely to look at.)
Tl;dr: breaks the mold in interesting ways and has some very beautiful, unflashy verse, but needed a lot of help in certain areas.