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wheatie'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? It's complicated
4.0
Moderate: Addiction, Blood, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, and Vomit
stacy_27_'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.5
Graphic: Death, Drug use, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence
Minor: Blood, Bullying, and Drug abuse
uranaishi'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? It's complicated
4.75
Graphic: Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Murder, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Gore, Racism, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Sexism, Alcohol, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Stalking, Vomit, Medical content, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Violence, and Gaslighting
Minor: Blood, Infidelity, Police brutality, Car accident, Bullying, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Animal death, Cancer, Racial slurs, and Suicide
lainiereads's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
It is definitely a good book, don't get me wrong, but man, it caught me off guard. It's just so dark! This may seem obvious because it's a "dark academia" book, but it was even darker than what you'd expect! So definitely check the TWs before you read!
Alex was such a great main character, just the perfect morally gray heroine. She was so unhinged which is always my favorite thing (example A: Jude from tcp). And then there's Darlington!!!! My only complaint is that he wasn't in the book more. He is a good match for Alex, because he is kinda her opposite? At least at first glance, they are completely different from each other, but when it comes down to it, they have similar values. I don't know if that made sense, but basically I really love both of them and want to see more! I expected there to be more romance between them, but it felt more like a friendship that will become romantic in the future if that makes sense?
Anyway! Great book, very dark and confusing, but great characters and mystery! I recommend if you like The Atlas Six, though this was less confusing than ta6, which is still the most confusing book I've read.
Okay ms Leigh Bardugo, please give us a release date or title for the sequel now! Thanks <3
Graphic: Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Violence, Addiction, Drug use, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Sexism, Alcohol, Misogyny, and Vomit
mchelle_muses's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, and Violence
Moderate: Addiction, Blood, Classism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gaslighting, and Murder
Minor: Bullying
risemini's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Gore, Grief, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence
abbeyreadthis's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence
findmeinunderland'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? Yes
5.0
First of all the cover is just so aesthetically pleasing, even more so after actually falling in love with the characters…
I kind of equate it to being about Alex’s tattoos. Alex’s most prominent tattoos are the snakes that wrap around her collar bones, and I feel like they would be the epitome of her shame when it comes to her tattoos, it’s the most blatant in the macabre nature of the art on her body, spider webs are a more common choice, other things could be given an alternative explanation of importance, but not many people, especially those within the stereotypes of ivy league alumnus, have two huge black snakes curling around their shoulders. I love the symbolism of it being on the cover of the book because Alex used the stereotypes of her outward appearance to avoid attachment, when given the opportunity to flee her environment she covers them as a way of separating herself from the memories she had of being ostracized. Her tattoos later become a different kind of cover, an armor.
I even saw some people say Bardugo tried to hard to be dark in her content by making Alex’s trauma explicit but failed to give the character any justice, but my response is that the entire present day timeline is Alex’s justice…. Alex was abused and violated by something the most privileged people she knew saw as a gift. It is a widely known horrible part of our reality that the world doesn’t believe or protect victims, it doesn’t protect women. The fact that so many people saw her trauma even if she didn’t want them to and completely wrote her off so they didn’t have to deal with what it meant, is the most realistic part of her character. She was poor, a woman of color, homeless at more than one point in her life…I can think of nothing more realistic that her not getting feasible, malleable justice. But to say she got none at all would be wrong, Alex’s justice was cosmic and metaphorically and more meaningful than some get in the real world, she gained a different sense of self worth imprinting herself onto Tara’s circumstances, fighting to find out what happened to tara meant acknowledging that she and Alex were one in the same— at least in The sense that the world values them the same, she became attached to Tara because she saw herself in a dead body that no one else seemed to care about and couldn’t help but imprint on that experience. Alex knew the world valued her and Tara the same, she saw the parallels between Tara and herself and yet she still came to the conclusion that Tara deserved better than what she got in death, and in life. Those thoughts are more kind than Alex was to herself on a normal basis, and maybe they wouldn’t have meant anything if Alex wasn’t the narrator but she was, she was the one aligning their value, and ultimately accepting that she deserved better than what she got out of life…Alex’s justice was aligning her value with every victim belbam took and saying that they all deserved better.
Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Bullying, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, Cursing, Death, Gore, Murder, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Violence
Moderate: Self harm, Abandonment, Animal death, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, and Stalking
makahlo'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? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence
Moderate: Addiction
mypatronusisajedi'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? It's complicated
3.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, and Vomit
Minor: Cancer