3.4 AVERAGE

adventurous dark funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

brittneyhm's review

5.0

That’s the best book of the year for me so far. Fantastic insane fever dream.. Loved every single character and I would love my own craggle .. long live Spike and his comfy chair, origami squirrel and endless pocket money
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pickleballlibrarian's review

4.0

Too unbelievable! A magical human-like creature that’s like a guardian angel with a violent streak helps the main character. It’s an entertaining and adventurous story.
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gheridenthebookbard's review

3.5
adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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taysha10_reads's review

4.0
adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced
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
dark funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced
funny medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

spider79's review

5.0
adventurous dark hopeful lighthearted reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

readerofdafuk's review

4.0
adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

It was a fun read with funny moments and banter between the main cast and their opponents. I love the theme of niceness is important in this world regardless of the hardships. It was interesting that the plot of the book (just one night) was intercut with 10 years worth of flashbacks on...really all the bullshit that Benny went through but stayed true to himself despite it. 

It wasn't as scary or as horror as I thought. A bit more whimsical perhaps and there were definitely scary moments, but only in the flashbacks (sometimes) so it was never a constant feeling.

I'm also not sure if I like the writing style. It has a meandering prose to it which I like in stephen king, but instead of meandering about characters to further explore them it sometimes meandering on the author interjecting himself into past chapters or going in introspection, which felt trippy at times. 

I still enjoyed the book, wasn't as horror as I thought it was

jergrylls's review

3.5
adventurous dark funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes