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stageandpage's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Suicide
Moderate: Grief, Murder, Mental illness, Death of parent, Sexual content, Dementia, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Incest, Blood, and Death
shorthannah'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? No
3.0
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Dementia, Toxic relationship, and Suicide
katvou's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.75
Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual content
Moderate: Suicide and Suicide attempt
Minor: Blood, Death of parent, Dementia, Drug abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Child death, Gore, Gaslighting, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Body horror
hitheremynameislisa's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Vomit, Drug use, Suicide, Mental illness, Grief, Death, Violence, Murder, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Dementia and Forced institutionalization
jshawreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Now, I dont mind a bit of spice in my fiction... But when the spice is just purely "This is my p***y now", "slam, slam, slam" and the main characters thighs being "soaked", along with the worst phrase I have ever read (and it came up twice) "Her nipples pebbled" it just comes off as tacky. Gratuitous sex and poorly written, supposedly romantic, moments really detracted from the actual plot. If the sub-plot of romance was gone, this book would have been infinitely better.
This is a real shame, this book could have been excellent
Graphic: Chronic illness, Murder, Dementia, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Sexual content, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Toxic relationship
viselik's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
SCHIZOPHRENIA, SUICIDE, SELF-HARM, ABUSE, IFFY SEXUAL SITUATIONS OR INCEST
I would have done lower stars if I could. This book honestly handles the topics inside of it really poorly. If I wasn't so stubborn about my rule about finishing a book, I would have put this down after chapter 10.
I won't really go in-depth here as I'm not even comfortable remembering the book fully, would highly recommend The Book Leo's video here on this book as she states a lot of what I feel about this book but I'll give a quick rundown of my final thoughts on it.
Spoiler
The main cast of characters all feel quite childlike at times, I'm not quite sure about it. Even the teacher character Vad Deverell feels like this a lot of the time. Even more so on how jealous he gets over Troy or Jax who are both around 19 years old. Corvina (whose name is literally a fish) I can't even get started at how childlike she seemed, or just how unaware of the danger she could be in.
Also, why did it take until around chapter 16 to find out Vad's age? Why is the author hiding it? Not to mention it's only said once, compared to the several times the student's ages are given out or even the amount of times we are told Corvina is in her early 20s.
The author does state that she made Vad's character vague but having that doesn't excuse how one-dimensional he felt most of the time. Even when we are finding out about his backstory it didn't feel like it was helping his character, at times I even preferred now knowing as I was constantly thinking by the end if he was going to kill someone like he did his grandfather.
The main mystery of the book, the Black Ball held every 5 years and each time it's on someone goes missing... well this is never answered. Instead, we get an incest scene about our love interest Vad's crazy family member who wants to have his kids so they would have good 'devil' genes and could run the school. This same family member has caused at least 2 people to jump off the roof and tried to get our MC to do it as well, she does this via a drug... Yeah. I would highly not recommend this book to anyone.
The several sex scenes in this feel rather poorly written, there are a few moments floating around the internet about some of the lines from this book but as I've read I've noticed a few more. Quite a
lot of them are all in the sex scenes and their incessant need to mention madness, but this madness is never really described.
Another thing I noticed about this book, we get a lot of being told but not having it described at all. Like the music from chapter 2 I believe, it's said to be "Haunting. Eerie. Ethereal." though nothing else is really described about it. We don't even know it's a piano till we see the guy who is playing it.
If you are looking for sex scenes, please just go look at the porn without plot tag on AO3 you could probably find even better sex scenes without having to pay for them.
Graphic: Death of parent, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Incest, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual assault
Moderate: Abandonment, Dementia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, and Pedophilia
- Consent is never given in one of the sex scenes. -carla20's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Mental illness, Death, and Dementia
Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Blood
abbiexhope'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
4.5
Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, and Murder
Moderate: Body horror, Grief, Death, and Dementia
Minor: Incest
xoxo_bookishbabe's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Dementia, Blood, Death, and Death of parent
chaotic_hyperactive's review against another edition
- 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
4.75
Graphic: Suicide and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Murder and Dementia
Minor: Incest, Fire/Fire injury, and Rape