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macieyeadon's review against another edition
5.0
You may think that you know sadness, but you don’t until you read this book. There is so much beauty and love within it, but overall not enough for Jude, who deserves the world and yet deserved nothing that the world ever gave to him.
Really, finding words to adequately rate this book is impossible. I didn’t know what to expect going into it, perhaps the lives of four college graduates and the fun that they got up to.
Wrong.
Heartbreak, love, relationships, betrayals, death, loss, all of which are mashed into 720 pages of phenomenal writing that is easy to lose yourself in completely. The extremely dark elements are written so realistically that you are reminded that there is evil in the world and sometimes there is no recovering from it, but life goes on for as long as you can bare it.
Jude St. Francis, you are beautiful.
Really, finding words to adequately rate this book is impossible. I didn’t know what to expect going into it, perhaps the lives of four college graduates and the fun that they got up to.
Wrong.
Heartbreak, love, relationships, betrayals, death, loss, all of which are mashed into 720 pages of phenomenal writing that is easy to lose yourself in completely. The extremely dark elements are written so realistically that you are reminded that there is evil in the world and sometimes there is no recovering from it, but life goes on for as long as you can bare it.
Jude St. Francis, you are beautiful.
mainelyreading's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
elichang's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
bulletproof13's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
ruatdika's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
bibliophiles_united's review against another edition
dark
emotional
tense
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
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Rape, and Child abuse
ejc20's review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
tense
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
3.75
abbygee0131's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
There are parts of this book that are brilliantly written, and others that are so repetitive, so painfully overbearing, that it becomes depressing (and not in the way the author intended.)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide
ninabc16's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25