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mikelogan's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- 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
DUUUUDE. Right up until the last chapter I was still trying to figure everything out. This was so good and written beautifully. Taking a half-star off for the use of Comic Sans in the podcast logo lmao
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Animal death, and Child death
Minor: Abortion and Sexual assault
brynhayes's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
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? No
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Blood, Suicide, Abandonment, Abortion, Alcohol, Death, Murder, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Drug use, and Gaslighting
lpdx's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Ableism, Trafficking, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Death, Murder, Child death, and Grief
Minor: Abortion
ronnieb's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Trigger Warning: Death of Children, Child Abuse, Death of Animals (Dogs), Sexual Assault
3.5
This was a solid 4 star book all the way through until the end for me. You are reading from 3 point of views; Jessica Paige, who is the mother of one of the boys who is found dead. John Flecter, a detictive who worked on the original case, and the last POV is that of Podcast transcripts that Cody Swift is producing. Cody was the best friend of Charlie and Scott, the two young boys who were murdered.
Each POV is pretty unique and reaveals just enough to keep you going and reading. I would not say any of them are particularly rootable or good people but that is all I am going to say as any more could cross over to spoilers.
I settled on my rating of 3.5 stars because I was ultimately let down by a few answers to some of the mysteries but the last and final twist was strong enough that I brought the rating back to a 3.5 but I will be rounding up. This was my second book from this author and I liked it a bit more than the other so i hope to be on an upward trajectory!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Sexual assault, and Animal death
kellyjadepole's review against another edition
2.0
Ugh maybe it's just because I've been on a streak of less than impressive books but ugh. This book built to a big pile of nothing, there were too many characters that I couldn't keep straight and a bunch of convoluted storylines. There's no real mystery here, just kind of a shrug. The only thing that felt remotely real about this story was the name of the podcast network. I can absolutely believe there's a podcast network called dishlicker somewhere. Everything else was unbelievable, undeserved, or unearned. Skip this.
As for that ending how was it supposed to be a TWIST that he was using this podcast device as a way to leverage a business? Why was that a gotcha? Literally anyone could have said "wow he pulled some weird publicity stunt guess this podcast was just to hype his company" how is Jessica some kind of hero for that? Also that totally unnecessary scene with the dog! Great, just what I needed, a killing puppy scene.
As for that ending
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
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