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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
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Echt niet perse een slecht verhaal of een verhaal dat slecht geschreven is, maar mijn verwachtingen na “The Unmaking of June Farrow” lagen heel hoog en daar voldeed het niet een bijna aan.
Echt niet perse een slecht verhaal of een verhaal dat slecht geschreven is, maar mijn verwachtingen na “The Unmaking of June Farrow” lagen heel hoog en daar voldeed het niet een bijna aan.
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
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
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
3.5: I started this because I love the unmaking of June Farrow by the same author. This book is very different. I was expecting more magic or telekinesis elements but this is really just a mystery. It’s a fun mystery but you have to wait a while to get to the tension. It entertained me and I liked James but I could’ve done with more suspense or more intrigue. The setting was really well done.
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
mysterious
reflective
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:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-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
Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Blood, Car accident, Murder, Abandonment
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This is definitely a slow book where it takes a while to get going. The story doesn't really start to unfold until about half way.
Which, I didn't mind. I enjoyed the atmosphere and the introduction to the characters. Overall, I liked the mystery and was very invested in what was going on.
This book mainly loses stars for a few things:
1. I got annoyed at how many times the main character brought up the death of Griffin Walker. But then every time is like "BUT NO. That's too awful to think about!" so you don't really learn anything in spite of guessing early on roughly what happened. This just got kind of tedious. Like, stop teasing something that happened and not visiting it. Once or twice might have been fine, but it felt like every chapter was "And everything changed when Griffin died. And the three of us were never honest about it... but now's not the time to focus on that."
2. I'm annoyed at how quickly/easily the FMC believed that her brother was capable of awful things. Like, OK, he did some dumb stuff as a kid and could be kind of impulsive, but to go from that tomurdering Autumn seemed like a wild jump to me.
3. The thing with smoke was never explored? They found the dog when they were teenagers. By all accounts, the wolf dog is 20+ years old. And he seemed to have been kind of a familiar to Johnny? I don't know, there are questions there that never got explored.
4. The last chapter.I don't hate pregnancy in a book, but ffs, the ending was overly sapphic. Oh no, my unplanned bebeh won't meet my unpredictable, unstable, dark brother. Not to mention, I hate that she left six rivers largely to not become her mom. That she goes back, settles down with her high school sweetheart, and has a baby just ruins her as a character for me. If she had just gone back and been with Michah, I would have been fine. But nope, no couple is complete with BEBEHS!
Which, I didn't mind. I enjoyed the atmosphere and the introduction to the characters. Overall, I liked the mystery and was very invested in what was going on.
This book mainly loses stars for a few things:
1. I got annoyed at how many times the main character brought up the death of Griffin Walker. But then every time is like "BUT NO. That's too awful to think about!" so you don't really learn anything in spite of guessing early on roughly what happened. This just got kind of tedious. Like, stop teasing something that happened and not visiting it. Once or twice might have been fine, but it felt like every chapter was "And everything changed when Griffin died. And the three of us were never honest about it... but now's not the time to focus on that."
2. I'm annoyed at how quickly/easily the FMC believed that her brother was capable of awful things. Like, OK, he did some dumb stuff as a kid and could be kind of impulsive, but to go from that to
3. The thing with smoke was never explored? They found the dog when they were teenagers. By all accounts, the wolf dog is 20+ years old. And he seemed to have been kind of a familiar to Johnny? I don't know, there are questions there that never got explored.
4. The last chapter.
fast-paced