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amypalmer's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Positives are that the faerie lore is good, the creatures are described well (when they are present). The different type of fae is interesting and not just your typical fae. However there is not enough of this. I find a transformation that happens in the story interesting and not the typical beautiful fairy that we have come accustom to.
The racism at the begining was just off, as was the character, being a child who drinks and smokes regularly with a terrible parent, does what she wants with no repercussions, typical boring rebel teen trope.
This side of the book was what made me not like it. This books is also in the weird realm of not being g for children but also not really for adults either. It does feel like half a story too at times. I will be reading the other two books in the series.
Graphic: Sexual harassment
Moderate: Sexual assault, Alcoholism, and Alcohol
aseel_reads's review against another edition
Moderate: Sexual harassment, Racism, Sexual assault, and Alcohol
misosouplvr's review
the main character, kaye, is just boring! nothing about her is new, she’s a teenage girl who has never know what a home is and her mom is described as dysfunctional, the book quite literally starts out with her (Kaye) smoking a cigarette and drinking.
as I was reading this, I got more and more confused cause the words were literally jumbled to me and nothing made sense to me cause somehow we went from one scene to something entirely different?
another thing that peeved me was the big reveal that
i literally checked this book out from my library VIA libby and returned it on the same day.
Moderate: Alcohol and Alcoholism
Minor: Sexual harassment, Racism, Sexual assault, and Violence
this book also for some reason makes kept having scenes of SA yet never fully getting into itqwib_reads's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Murder, Body horror, Kidnapping, Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Racism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Infidelity, Alcohol, Blood, Racial slurs, and Rape
Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment
nannahnannah's review
3.0
This has been on my to-read list for forever; I think it was recommended to me in high school? It's about time I finally got to it!
Ever since she was young, Kaye could see faeries. "Imaginary friends", everyone else thought, and Kaye was teased for it. But when she grew older, Kaye realized her imaginary friends weren't so imaginary, and she might be closer to the Faery world than she thought when she stumbles across a Faery Knight, saves his life, and tumbles head-first into a plot of the Seelie and Unseelie courts.
Whew, this was a ride. I'm not sure it was altogether a pleasant one, though. More like a "whoa, where is this going?" kind of ride. The first half was readable and enjoyable, even if a bit annoyingly "edgy" (a personal clash of tastes, really), but towards the second, things really seemed to slide out of control.
The climax seemed 3/4 of the way into the book, and after it passed . . . there still was 50 or so pages left. What was happening? There was a major clash between the romantic interests that was never resolved except for some romantic touches--and then I was to have assumed things were mended from there (how?). Suddenly things climaxed again with an explanation from Kaye that sounded like a Scooby Doo mystery wrap-up (literally with a page-and-a-half summary of "this is what happened, wasn't it??" that I had to read over a couple times to actually understand what she was trying to say). If your protagonist has to explain the plot of the entire book coming together in two pages . . . something's not coming together right.
Also . . . I haven't read every book by Holly Black, but I'm noticing a disturbing trend of gay side characters. Disturbing because they're always side characters, and they're always men. I haven't seen anything on Holly Black about this, but I'm starting to worry about fetishization . . . ? Again, I haven't read everything, and I'd love to be proved wrong on this.
Anyway, it just wasn't for me.
Graphic: Sexual harassment and Rape
nostoat's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
4.0
Moderate: Sexual harassment
Someone dies by drowningfaeriexprincette's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Moderate: Alcoholism
Minor: Racism, Torture, Sexual harassment, and Kidnapping