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Sadie by Courtney Summers

201 reviews

blue_is_at_sea's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Very good book! 
I highly recommend that you listen to the audiobook version of this story. It has great sound design and has multiple voice actors to add to the story. 

It’s absolutely heartbreaking reading about Sadie and her life and what she goes through. It’s amazing and highly recommended. 
It has very dark themes so keep that in mind. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Blood, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Classism, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Alcohol, and Addiction

Minor: Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Drug use, Child abuse, Classism, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, and Stalking

mari_lit's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, and Grief

Moderate: Drug use, Drug abuse, Rape, Death, and Addiction

michelle_my_belle's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Violence, Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Bullying

bookish_mind's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Addiction, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

stevie02's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child abuse, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Death, Murder, Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, and Alcoholism

snowy05's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

Dark themes but not graphic in descriptions. I wish it was a longer book with more description.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Sexual assault

Minor: Murder, Addiction, and Suicide attempt

chloenk_1011's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Blood, Sexual harassment, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual violence, Violence, Abandonment, Addiction, Child abuse, Drug use, Grief, Physical abuse, and Rape

glitterdeww's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• 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

4.0

I don't often pick up mystery thrillers, but I'm so glad that I read Sadie, by Courtney Summers. This is a gripping novel following the titular character, a nineteen year old girl full of guilt, grief, and rage after the murder of her little sister. If you have access to the audiobook of this novel, (check your local library app) I would highly recommend it. It's voiced by a full cast, and because half of the book follows a radio show host trying to piece together what happened, it sounds very much like a true crime podcast.

There are many ugly things in this book, so check content warnings. There's not a lot of graphic detail, just description enough to explain what happened to these girls. It's hard to look at, but like most difficult things I think it's important to understand what ugliness actually exists. I also want to stress that there's beauty in this novel, too. But it's the kind that makes your heart ache. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, Addiction, Child abuse, Grief, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Violence, Rape, and Sexual violence

alexafuson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I was really impressed by the quality of writing in this book, and the full-cast audiobook performance was AMAZING. It was beautiful and horrifying how much I was able to understand Sadie while reading this book. It was a bit different than other mystery novels to me because there was no major plot twist where you realized everything you thought was wrong. More and more information was slowly revealed which made the guess we all made early in the book feel more concrete. As for the ending, I understand the purpose of it, but I’m not sure I agree with how it ended. I was disappointed with the open ending, even though it was pretty easy to guess what happened next. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Gore, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Addiction, Sexual violence, and Rape

Moderate: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Drug abuse, and Body horror

bookishbabe93's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pedophilia, Addiction, Child abuse, and Vomit