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4.28 AVERAGE
4.28 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
tense
fast-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
mysterious
This book was unequivocally inferior to Razorblade Tears. I found it exceedingly slow and felt as though it dragged.
challenging
dark
informative
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Bleh. This is why a NYT capsule book review is insufficient, and why one must be wary of the genre known as “thriller.” Torture described in detail—not for me. And even as I am wrinkling my nose and skimming past the ick, I am wondering, “how exactly would this particular torture have worked? Because it involves some things that I don’t think would make such good clues in the way they supposedly do. (I will just say that I am pretty sure skin is not a great medium for long calligraphied messages when it involves butcher knives, but maybe I’m wrong.) Plus, one of the small-town tropes that we always laugh at in Brit mysteries—the population just going about their business and holding their annual festival while a vicious monster murders denizens every couple of days, and the Sheriff has to personally invite nearby media to come news conference—it does not lend credibility in Modsommer, and it does not lend credibility in rural Virginia. The novel is overstuffed with capital-t Themes, with side characters, and with adjectives. And I couldn’t DNF it because it’s creepy and violent, so to be able to banish speculation that would keep the book alive in my head, I had to finish it.
I am simply not the intended reader, and I wish I had realized this in time,
I am simply not the intended reader, and I wish I had realized this in time,
slow-paced
Just no. Ofc nobody guessed who it was, bc we didn’t even rlly know that person existed.
dark
emotional
mysterious
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
challenging
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book felt very authentic and real. It’s probably better to read as a physical book because I could not remember who was who at times and when the killer was revealed, I was like “who?” I didn’t realize we met him earlier in the book.