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bex4dayz's review
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent, Body horror, Child abuse, Violence, Pedophilia, Child death, and Suicide
lilike's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-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? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual violence, Child death, and Child abuse
cezanj's review
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
reflective
medium-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? No
5.0
I loved everything about this book- the atmosphere, the mystery, the characters. It’s dark but also hilarious. I can’t wait for Candice Wuehle’s next novel!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, and Trafficking
Minor: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Body horror
lyngox's review
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- 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
3.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, and Sexual violence
Minor: Self harm and Suicide
booksnailmail's review
adventurous
challenging
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
“I am not monarch. My heart is in the air. I am not monarch. I feel my feet on the ground.”
Beyond the vast chamber of You, there is someone conditioned by outside voices, fears, and deceptions. But claw your way inside that chamber, past the layers of bubble wrap, to meet the You who didn’t fit into the constraints of friction. Who always knew what rubbed her the wrong way tried to tell her the landscape of expectations, and she took the onus to map a construct of the pure. Inside that chamber is an untamed little lemon, but look closer and see it pulse. It’s a heart beating to a cue. Take that cue to the start line. It’s time to meet you.
Jessica is a sacrificial lamb, a modern day Jon Benet Ramsey. But imagine a version of the story where Jon Benet survives. Where she walks away from the rubble her family created, stops calling the flames a pedestal. Imagine that version where Jon Benet gets to live to age 99 and own three dogs, and marry the love of her life. Imagine the version where Jon Benet realizes she is an introvert after all and wants to raise chickens on a farm. I want that version, so I unravel distortions of reality with Jessica. As she gets closer to breaking into the chambers of truth, she finds that her own identity trails in a fraught wake.
I love reading novels by poets. They lay their words gently on the page, like icicles plucked from the nearest winter cottage. Candice Wuehle can harness the wind and breath it down your neck. This novel was eerie and sometimes graphic, yet I came out with nothing but tenderness. It’s about Jessica, a girl on the cusp of womanhood. Moreover, she is on a quest to find her humanity. She has been trained her whole life, in the pageant circuits and into government deep state operations. Her enemies live inside her, but she has memories like a hot knife in butter. She is cutting through white noise towards her love, Veronica.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse
Moderate: Murder
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