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Sadie by Courtney Summers

51 reviews

bimwittt's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Murder and Physical abuse

sarahsbookss's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gore, Physical abuse, and Rape

Moderate: Cursing and Death

thereadingshelf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Violence

cybersylk's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• 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? It's complicated

3.5

Dark and devastating story of the things that happen every day in our country. Sadie was a beautiful character that you couldn’t help but root for. Unfortunately, the podcast aspect of this just kind of ruined it for me. I learned all of the information twice and it was just annoying.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Child abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Rape, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Murder, Kidnapping, Grief, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death, and Blood

horizonous's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This story - and especially Sadie as a character - will stay with me for a while.. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Grief, Mental illness, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Cancer, Death of parent, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, and Vomit

◦ Addiction = Heroin
◦ Alcohol = Underage drinking
◦ Death = Death of sibling
◦ Mental illness = Depression, PTSD

lyss_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Child death

kattiah21's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Death, Child death, and Blood

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, and Physical abuse

emilymay_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence

chaosreads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Grief, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Rape, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

leahwithplantsinthelibrary's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

tw// pedophilia, sexual abuse, grief, murder

"& this story begins, as so many stories do, with a dead girl"

ohh boy. ok. well.

sadie by courtney summers is the story of a girl named sadie. pretty obvious but anyway. sadie lived in cold creek, colorado, with her sister mattie, and their sort of adoptive grandmother? may beth foster. their mother, claire, is pretty much out of the picture. at the very beginning of the book we are told that mattie went missing and was then subsequently murdered. she was 13. through alternating perspectives of sadie, and through a podcast that talks about the story that surrounds her, we get to hear the heartbreaking story of "family, sisters, small town america, the lengths we go to protect the ones we love ... and the high price we pay when we can't"

first off the alternating perspective was absolutely genius. the writing was impeccable. i cant stop thinking about it.

this story is the story of so many little girls. it was soul destroying and it was definitely meant to be. in the past year alone i have been exposed to so many stories like this, which unfortunately, are in high abundance in south africa. why must society be this way ?

this is an important book that all people should read. read it an sob because this is the world we live in.

"because i cant take another dead girl"

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Kidnapping, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Physical abuse