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maeverose's review against another edition
I’m definitely losing interest in this series, it’s getting boring for me. I may jump to Lost in the Moment and Found, but otherwise I’m not gonna continue.
As I mentioned in my review for the previous book, this series is much more character and worldbuilding explanation focused than plot or world exploration focused, and that doesn’t work for me. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that at all, I think these books are very well written and well done, it’s just not what I personally want from the series.
This book felt very slow to me, the characters don’t get to the Moors until 43% in, and it focused very heavily on characters’ inner monologues and rehashed a lot of what we learned about them in previous books. I understand why it’s written that way, since you’re supposed to be able to read the books in almost any order, you wouldn’t know the characters or their backstories if you started with this one. But for me it just felt like it was dragging out the plot and I was waiting for things to get started. Even once they got to the Moors though, it was still so focused on the characters’ inner monologues that I just decided I wasn’t interested enough.
It didn’t bother me with the previous books, but most of the characters in this series don’t talk like real people talk, especially kids/teens. Seanan Mcguire writes a lot of the dialogue in a similar way to how she writes the narration (very pretty and neatly worded), just with a little of each character’s personality added. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it feels intentional, but it’s starting to annoy me personally. People having an actual conversation wouldn’t be able to come up with such a perfectly thought out, well worded and almost poetic response on the spot. It reminds me I’m reading a book with fictional characters. It’s probably more obvious in this book because of the way characters raised in the Moors talk, but I have noticed it with all the books and most of the characters.
Graphic: Murder, Death, and Violence
Moderate: Body horror and Gore
I dnfed before the worst of the gore/body horror probably, so I just put them under moderate though it could be graphic, idkhappysami'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? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Death, Body horror, and Mental illness
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders
schnaucl's review against another edition
- 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
4.25
I was surprised we got another story about Jack and Jill. I was also surprised that nearly everyone seemed to think it would be no big deal to switch bodies with an identical twin because they look so similar. I would think there would always be some body dysphoria with a body swap, but I could see how it would be even worse with an identical twin, even for someone without OCD. Even with identical twins there would be some minor differences, enough to produce an uncanny valley feeling every time you looked in the mirror.
This novella lacked the lyrical omniscient third person perspective that was present in the other Jack and Jill stories.
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Blood, Dysphoria, Murder, Gore, War, Body horror, Violence, and Mental illness
barbarella85's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Moderate: Death
momewrath's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Violence, Death, War, Grief, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness
ellanarose's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Blood, and Death
Moderate: Gore, Violence, Dysphoria, Grief, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Medical content, and Animal death
matcha_cat's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Moderate: Murder, Death, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Child death
Minor: Grief, Blood, and Gore
thereistime's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Death, Xenophobia, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Violence, Body horror, and Blood
just_one_more_paige's review against another edition
- 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: Murder, Death, Blood, Body horror, and Violence
lipstickitotheman's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Grief, and Medical content