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tsheen08's review against another edition
challenging
dark
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? Yes
3.25
viniciusdx12's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide, Death of parent, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood
voracioushonel's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
hchannell's review against another edition
2.0
the twist was wild- i did not see it coming like at all… but was also a little confused and didn’t get it immediately sooo 2 stars
purplesky02's review against another edition
2.0
I found this book confusing. I'm still not exactly sure what happened.
bookstashread's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 “You can’t really be sure what’s true and what’s not true, all you know is how you feel.”
What the ef did I just read…
As soon as I realized this was an unreliable narrator … I accepted the fact that this was one of those where I just have to know what happens… even though I know at the end I’m STILL not going to have any idea what happened. And, this was a spot on prediction for my experience of this book.
The basis is you have this woman narrator (did she even have a name?) who is going with her newish boyfriend, Jake, to visit his family at a remote farm. She is “thinking about ending things” with him but decides to go along for the trip anyways and a series of strange, unsettling, things occur.
“Something that disorients, that unsettles what’s taken for granted, something that disturbs and disrupts reality—that’s scary.” - this quote encompassed the entire sense of this book for me. So many little, creepy, details went into this - like the dinner scene with the parents was creepy AF - even how he described the narrator eating - I was repulsed… or visiting the animals at the farm before dinner - gah!
There was also some truly insightful quotes on human nature here - essentially that we are all living our own realities… so is anything ever actually real?
“Time has a way of distorting our memories, making them more or less than what they actually were.”
You can’t really say anymore about this one without ruining it for the next person, but at the end I got the feeling I often get after an abstract film where my boyfriend and I look at each other and say - what the fuuuuuhhh and then both google interpretations of the ending
What the ef did I just read…
As soon as I realized this was an unreliable narrator … I accepted the fact that this was one of those where I just have to know what happens… even though I know at the end I’m STILL not going to have any idea what happened. And, this was a spot on prediction for my experience of this book.
The basis is you have this woman narrator (did she even have a name?) who is going with her newish boyfriend, Jake, to visit his family at a remote farm. She is “thinking about ending things” with him but decides to go along for the trip anyways and a series of strange, unsettling, things occur.
“Something that disorients, that unsettles what’s taken for granted, something that disturbs and disrupts reality—that’s scary.” - this quote encompassed the entire sense of this book for me. So many little, creepy, details went into this - like the dinner scene with the parents was creepy AF - even how he described the narrator eating - I was repulsed… or visiting the animals at the farm before dinner - gah!
There was also some truly insightful quotes on human nature here - essentially that we are all living our own realities… so is anything ever actually real?
“Time has a way of distorting our memories, making them more or less than what they actually were.”
You can’t really say anymore about this one without ruining it for the next person, but at the end I got the feeling I often get after an abstract film where my boyfriend and I look at each other and say - what the fuuuuuhhh and then both google interpretations of the ending
vkris's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5