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tdawgg07'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: Child death, Toxic relationship, and Blood
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Sexual harassment, Miscarriage, Classism, Toxic friendship, Infidelity, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Murder, Cursing, Grief, Blood, Cancer, Child death, Death, and Suicide
aileron'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
3.0
Graphic: Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Infidelity, Drug abuse, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Suicide, Blood, Grief, and Medical content
Minor: Abortion and Miscarriage
savheath's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Child death and Murder
Moderate: Suicide, Gore, and Toxic relationship
nursestern's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Drug use, Alcohol, Suicide, Child death, and Murder
mars_loves_books'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? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Violence, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Infidelity
Minor: Child death and Suicide
bookstorian's review against another edition
3.5
➕️ I was gripped and shocked at times but not as consistently as I would have liked. Perhaps because the book wasn't really a thriller as I was expecting.
➕️Enjoyed some of the post reading activities surrounding the book such as listening to podcasts, reading some interesting theories about the ending and discovering that it was inspired by Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein)
➖️Struggled between the timelines, amount of characters (two with the same name) and genres that were thrown in, some of these exerpts were unnecessary.
➖️The execution of the concept of how houses remember. It was an intriguing idea but I didn't really find the house to really remember.
➖️The genre seemed to be more adult fiction or mystery than thriller, mainly due to pacing. It also was trying to be gothic (place as character) but didn't achieve this in my opinion.
✍️ "... a legacy is both a gift and a curse". Pg192
🛍 I purchased my copy from The Nile Australia
Graphic: Murder
Moderate: Suicide and Child death
audaroundtheworld's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
4.5
Moderate: Murder, Toxic relationship, Death, Toxic friendship, and Drug use
Minor: Miscarriage and Suicide
wrestleacademic'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
3.25
Graphic: Drug use, Blood, Alcohol, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Infertility, Vomit, and Suicide
ladylothlorien'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? It's complicated
4.0
So the ending ended up knocking off a star but I still overall enjoyed the book. And I’m really enjoying Hawkins’s penchant for these sort of literary retellings, so definitely going to read more by her.
Moderate: Murder, Blood, Child death, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Chronic illness, Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Suicide, and Vomit
The age gap relationship is Mari and Pierce who got together when Mari was still an underage teen, but Mari is 19 for most of the events of this book. Emily is also going thru a contentious divorce which for anyone who has been thru one might feel uncomfortably familiar.heypretty52'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
4.5
Graphic: Drug use, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Addiction, Alcohol, Child death, Death, Grief, Infidelity, Murder, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Cancer, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Violence, Suicide, Stalking, and Blood