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Dismantled by Jennifer McMahon

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caitpoytress's review

2.0

The premise was good, the book... not so much. Fighting the urge to skim is never a good sign.

Holy Mother of all endings! This was genuinely an incredibly suspenseful, twisting, and riveting paranormal thriller. The characters and their thoughts, fears, desires and actions are all so viscerally real. Just wow. I've been dismantled.

fromtheyellowchair's review

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4.0

At times while reading this it felt like there was just too much going on and that the author was forcing different elements together for the sake of creating something edgy but it mostly pays off in the end. The elements do fit together more naturally in the end once everything is explained and certain plot points no longer seem extraneous. Its worth reading just to arrive at the creepy note the book ends on.

tdumatrait's review

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4.0

Started off a bit slow, but the twist and turns in the plot were intense. Loved how nothing is what it seemed to be.

babs4205's review against another edition

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challenging 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

3.0

tobyyy's review

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2.0

This was a… very weird book.

4 stars for readability — short chapters and lots of action kept me interested.

2 stars for plot.

1 star for believability.

1 star for characterization — I liked Emma, the child, the best but even her character was odd and hard to connect with.

No one aside from Emma was remotely likable, I cheered no one on, and this book couldn’t make up its mind if it were a ghost story, murder mystery, or coming of age story so I just WTF-shelved it under both paranormal and murder because I have no idea where it would fit the best. Especially after that ending. My god.