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leonormsousa's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
fast-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? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Cannibalism, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Violence, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts
katyfayyyx's review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-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
1.5
I really wanted to love this book but my god did I hate nearly everything about this book, there was no bit of me that enjoyed reading this book in the slightest and thank fuck that I bought this on my Kindle so it was only 99p because I would have been so pissed, if I have actually paid like £8.99 for this shit. I am going to warn you all now if you don't like people talking shit about a book, please don't waste your time reading this review because I am about to be a complete and utter bitch about this book.
I think my main issue with this book was that is was trying so hard to be different, quirky and not like others girl kinda vibe but to me it just came off as super pretentious and boring like how can a book about people eating another people be that fucking dull, like girl nothing fucking happened and then they would eat someone and then we would like that nothing had happened, I think the issue with this book what that I didn't get it, I don't think this book was written for me, like I really struggled to actually finish this book because every single time I sat down and read this book, I was bored after about 10/15 mins but I felt like I was just to far in to not finish it, so I decided that I couldn't sleep so fuck it, I was going to finish this book because it finished me and by this point I just didn't give a single shit about this book, I just wanted it to end. Like when I say I didn't care, I mean I really really didn't care. I generally thought that I was going to really like this book at the start but this book drained me, like I thought I was going to cry while reading this book because I generally did feel really sorry for her and it was really confusing because you feel sorry for her mum and of course the people she was eating all at the same time. I do for some question though like okay I get why her mum leaves her but who just leaves her kids with only 100 dollars like who the fuck, was she going to do what that, but like have said I do think it was really sorry for her because like no one should be alone,
I also thought it would have been a lot more shocking and gory and just more horrifying, but I was just bored but I think the most confusing thing about this book is that I don't think this book is bad, I just think it is way to boring, like I need something to happen, like I need a reason to care and I just didn't care. I literally wrote down in my notes app 'you know something I would love explain to me when this fuck this book set like it doesn't feel like present day it but it doesn't say any different'- your girl was confused. I also did write 'who the fuck is Rachel' because who the fuck is Rachel and then the whole plot twist about Sully being her granddad and wanting to eat her because he like eating his family members was just so and I mean so fucking dumb like why, it just don't get why...
Chapter Twelve
I think my main issue with this book was that is was trying so hard to be different, quirky and not like others girl kinda vibe but to me it just came off as super pretentious and boring like how can a book about people eating another people be that fucking dull, like girl nothing fucking happened and then they would eat someone and then we would like that nothing had happened, I think the issue with this book what that I didn't get it, I don't think this book was written for me, like I really struggled to actually finish this book because every single time I sat down and read this book, I was bored after about 10/15 mins but I felt like I was just to far in to not finish it, so I decided that I couldn't sleep so fuck it, I was going to finish this book because it finished me and by this point I just didn't give a single shit about this book, I just wanted it to end. Like when I say I didn't care, I mean I really really didn't care. I generally thought that I was going to really like this book at the start but this book drained me, like I thought I was going to cry while reading this book because I generally did feel really sorry for her and it was really confusing because you feel sorry for her mum and of course the people she was eating all at the same time. I do for some question though like okay I get why her mum leaves her but who just leaves her kids with only 100 dollars like who the fuck, was she going to do what that, but like have said I do think it was really sorry for her because like no one should be alone,
I also thought it would have been a lot more shocking and gory and just more horrifying, but I was just bored but I think the most confusing thing about this book is that I don't think this book is bad, I just think it is way to boring, like I need something to happen, like I need a reason to care and I just didn't care. I literally wrote down in my notes app 'you know something I would love explain to me when this fuck this book set like it doesn't feel like present day it but it doesn't say any different'- your girl was confused. I also did write 'who the fuck is Rachel' because who the fuck is Rachel and then the whole plot twist about Sully being her granddad and wanting to eat her because he like eating his family members was just so and I mean so fucking dumb like why, it just don't get why...
Chapter Twelve
‘I had no idea you were so twisted, I sighed as I pressed my lip to his neck. Nobody ever does.’
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Violence, Abandonment, Cannibalism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Murder, Toxic relationship, Child death, Death of parent, and Gore
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Stalking
Minor: Sexual content
jan_coco_day's review
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Don't get close to Maren Yearly. She devours those who want her. Literally. Abandoned by her mother after sixteen years on the run from her hungry habit, Maren sets out in search of answers from the father she never knew. In that search, she enters the liminal world of those like her: with a forbidden hunger for human flesh. A world of profound lonliness, and even deeper appetites.
DeAngelis ratchets up the isolation of adolescence by creating a sympathetic but uncontrollable killer ("the bad thing"). As a former teen loner who also found escape in fictional fantasy worlds, I probably should not have accepted cannibalism as a character trait so readily, but here we are. There is so much longing in Maren and Lee that I didn't know if I devoured this book, or if this book devoured me.
DeAngelis ratchets up the isolation of adolescence by creating a sympathetic but uncontrollable killer ("the bad thing"). As a former teen loner who also found escape in fictional fantasy worlds, I probably should not have accepted cannibalism as a character trait so readily, but here we are. There is so much longing in Maren and Lee that I didn't know if I devoured this book, or if this book devoured me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Death, Gore, and Child death
Moderate: Emotional abuse
Minor: Child abuse and Suicidal thoughts
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