Reviews with content warning for Physical abuse - Binding 13

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Binding 13 by Chloe Walsh

474 reviews

ekate25's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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cletudies's review against another edition

4.25

emotional funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

for a girl who has crawled through 300+ pagers with such excruciating impatience i found it to be an incredibly easy feat to finish all eight-hundred something pages of this.

i've known about boys of tommen for a while, and i, assuming i'd hate it based off of multiple factors (the fact that it's this long, questionable bits i've seen on social media, and so on) could not care less about it before this week. honestly i've no idea what possessed me to read this, when i'm still in the middle of ruthless vows and a new copy of the seven-year-slip is sitting on my bedside table. but am i totally grateful towards my self for having picked it up? yes.

hell, i willfully added that god-awful cover in my kindle without knowing how long it would stay there. (i removed it from my library immediately after finishing. no story would make me keep any book when the cover looks like that.) the fact that i endured a cover with real people in it is a testament to my dedication, really.

of course, i am bothered by the fact that chloe walsh seems to have published the first draft with how filled to the brim this book is with unnecessary bits and pieces all about, that about two-hundred pages could probably be shaved off if it wasn't mentioned every two seconds how childlike and growth-stunted shannon was. but tommen has endeared itself to me so much i just chose to ignore that and went about my merry way enjoying every chapter.

these characters are wonderful. as seventeen as i am, i kept giggling at how they were (horrifically, sometimes) accurate. the embarrassing moments, the dynamics between everyone, the unnecessary drama — it felt like it wasn't summer at all and i was back in school for a bit. it consumed me, to be frank. like what do you mean i'm not irish, and that it isn't 2005? i have such a fondness for the aesthetics of this book. the old technology, the imagery of cork and the song references. i wasn't yet born in 2005, but nostalgia really hit me for something i never got to experience.

i get why everyone likes this book, despite its strange tendencies. (but really, the infantlization is really the only problem) i feel for everyone so much, most especially both johnny and shannon, and i am so excited to crack open the next book. which i will immediately after i finish writing this review.

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