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giulianac27's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Murder, and Alcohol
starsnotshadows's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
I think the author is a great writer, but some of the character's choices were frustrating and didn't make sense at times.
I watched the television series before reading the book, and that was an unfortunate mistake. I think both pieces of media are rather entertaining, but they are quite different. So I was kind of fighting my preconceived notions of this story for a bit there, but once I thought of them as separate tellings of a similar story, it got better for me.
I watched the television series before reading the book, and that was an unfortunate mistake. I think both pieces of media are rather entertaining, but they are quite different. So I was kind of fighting my preconceived notions of this story for a bit there, but once I thought of them as separate tellings of a similar story, it got better for me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Infidelity, Violence, and Blood
suzanlemont's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
3.25
I enjoyed the first 2/3 more than the last third. It starts off as a charming mix of Harry Potter and Narnia fan fiction with a distinctive adult edge missing from those books. But it descends in the end into a bit of a clumsy and less-inspired moral-less Narnia rip off towards the end which made me struggle through the last 150 pages or so. It had some really beautiful and interesting nuggets of great writing and if not totally original then at least curiosity-arousing and entertaining plot devices but the character development was wildly uneven/incomplete and I had a sense the author was floundering around at various times. I couldn't make an emotional attachment to any of the characters in the end.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death and Alcohol
Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Violence, Blood, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
katreadswaytoomuch's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
I was really excited to read this because I love the SyFy series, but I was sadly disappointed.
This book is full of misogyny, racism, and ableism. AND IT WAS PUBLISHED IN 2009. It suffers horribly from man-writes-woman.
I also found the MC more unlikeable than he was in the SyFy series. I can’t figure out if that was by design and genius or if it was how the author thinks and distasteful.
I’m so glad SyFy got a hold of this. They really improved the story overall. Don’t bother with the book. Just watch the show.
I still gave it 50/100 because I do like the concept. The characters are meant to be flawed; I love that, but I couldn’t stand the descriptions of female, POC, and plus-sized characters. The plot was really all over the place too.
This book is full of misogyny, racism, and ableism. AND IT WAS PUBLISHED IN 2009. It suffers horribly from man-writes-woman.
I also found the MC more unlikeable than he was in the SyFy series. I can’t figure out if that was by design and genius or if it was how the author thinks and distasteful.
I’m so glad SyFy got a hold of this. They really improved the story overall. Don’t bother with the book. Just watch the show.
I still gave it 50/100 because I do like the concept. The characters are meant to be flawed; I love that, but I couldn’t stand the descriptions of female, POC, and plus-sized characters. The plot was really all over the place too.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Cannibalism
Minor: Pedophilia
Racial slurs, man writes womanauteaandtales's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Content Warnings
Minor: Ableism, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, and Toxic friendship