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3.86 AVERAGE
3.86 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
A really fun read. Did get slow in the middle and I would have liked more focus on the themes *i* find interesting but it was still a really enjoying and well written book. Also the audio book actor was amazing.
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
the first couple chapters had me thinking I might not like this but it was pretty good!!
dark
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
I wanted to hear more about the women’s stories.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence
Moderate: Blood
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Boring. Foiled once again by my expectations. Based on reviews, I expected a horror book, or maybe horror-lite. I guess I grossly misread those reviews and was misled a little bit by the title. I was aware of ‘the changeling’ mythos before reading this book, so I expected an eerie tale of how a baby was switched with the changeling and the family experiencing weird/disturbing things because of the changeling culminating in the wife murdering the child. Yeah...that didn’t really happen. It was evident from the description of the book that Apollo’s wife kills his ‘child’, but the scene where it happens was...off. Not in a disturbing way, but in a way that I wasn’t sure if it was actually happening. Apollo’s weird dreams are emphasized throughout the story, and I really thought the scene where Emma kills their baby was a dream. It was just so abrupt and it came out of nowhere. There was very little lead up, and her suspicious and malevolent feeling towards their child weren’t very obvious. Her killing the baby came out of the blue.
Apollo then went on a quest to discover exactly what happened to his baby and why his wife went crazy. Perhaps the most interesting part about this book was
Apollo then went on a quest to discover exactly what happened to his baby and why his wife went crazy. Perhaps the most interesting part about this book was
Spoiler
the commune of women and children hidden on an island in the middle of the Hudson. LaValle did not spend nearly enough time here. While this was very interesting, is wasn’t fully explained. Maybe he was going for an air of mystery, but it really just felt incomplete.
As with most things in this world, it would've been better if it was about the women.