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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
This book made me feel like I was about to be in a car crash but there was nothing anyone could do to stop it and it never actually happened, I was just stuck in that in between moment where your stomach drops and you brace yourself for what is going to happen.
So I read Sadie not too long ago and it was one of the best books I’ve ever read.
It’s hard to have a follow up to that.
With that being said: this was a good read. It grips you from the beginning and once the action picks up, it’s fast paced. But it does take a while to get into the action.
The thing I loved about Sadie was the emotion involved. Again, we have a story that involved two sisters and the tough and intricate relationship they have with one another. In this book, the emotional connection was minimal and only could be found in Bea’s POV (which there wasn’t a lot of).
That last chapter was really hard to read though. It reminds you that you don’t really have the time you think you do.
Overall, it was a good read. I plan to read other books from this author.
It’s hard to have a follow up to that.
With that being said: this was a good read. It grips you from the beginning and once the action picks up, it’s fast paced. But it does take a while to get into the action.
The thing I loved about Sadie was the emotion involved. Again, we have a story that involved two sisters and the tough and intricate relationship they have with one another. In this book, the emotional connection was minimal and only could be found in Bea’s POV (which there wasn’t a lot of).
That last chapter was really hard to read though. It reminds you that you don’t really have the time you think you do.
Overall, it was a good read. I plan to read other books from this author.
I always find myself enjoying anything that involves a cult and this one is no different. The jump between timeliness do get confusing from time to time but I did manage to catch up immediately. The scary part about this book is that it does reflect real life since this kind of thing happens. The way Lev was written was so perfectly in lined with true crime cases that I have listened to and Bea and Lo are the perfect victims. It was a hard read as it does tackle some heavy stuff but I think it was good read.
what the flip flop did i just read. a part of me is shattered, broken. i don’t know what to make of it. the way this book twisted itself, unknowingly to me, so deeply into my heart and head is something that will cling to me for some time. the way that this book had my heart swinging from one side to the next.. i felt the confusion Lo felt. her confusion, pain, suffering, grief, and anger. courtney summers wrote this book. and this book rewrote something in me.
This could have been an intriguing book...but I just didn't connect with the characters. They all felt a little flat. I know this is not a good description of why I didn't like it, but really I just didn't care what happened to any of them.
Recently I have picked up books where cults are featured and I have determined that I am not a big fan of it. This is perhaps why I was not that interested or impressed with the cult that is featured in The Project. Lo and Bea are two sisters that become intertwined with the Unity Project. Bea joins after her sister is "saved" by the founder Lev. Years later, Lo begins to look into the cult more when she witnesses a young man kill himself with the main purpose to see her beloved sister again. Told from dual perspectives in the present and past, the reader tries to piece together what is really going on in the Unity Project and also what will happen to the sisters. Besides just not loving the cult plot line, I didn't connect with the characters, and I did not believe Lo's progression. I did not buy it. I read Sadie by Courtney Summers and really enjoyed it but this fell really flat for me.
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
AHHHHHHHHHH. I’m upset.
This was… hard to read/listen to. Not bc it wasn’t good (it was) but bc you can see the manipulation happening on the page, you can feel the dread, you can make the conclusion jumps that this isn’t gonna all end up okay, and you just gotta stew in it and witness it. It’s awful. And it’s great. Both narrators did a fabulous job. One I have listened to any enjoyed before, and one was new to me, but I really liked them both.
I’ve always been fascinated by cults. What draws ppl in, how and why do they stay, what helps them get out, if they do? And this does a really great job of showing that.. really, anyone can be sucked in by a cult, and to assume you can’t is your first mistake. Bea goes willingly; consumed by loss and so alone and young and unsure what to do, Lev is a seductive relief. Lo goes in guns blazing, skeptical as hell, literally tying to prove its cult-ness; and she gets sucked in too. Bc she is just as alone and unsure, and ppl who are actively trying to manipulate others are good at seeing this, and preying upon it. Watching the sisters (both povs, in parallel timelines) get sucked in by this (awful, horrible, stupid) man was really hard to listen too, but they’re love for each other (and Emmy) keeping them going, was also a beautiful love story in its own way.
Just… SISTERS!!!!!!
AND THAT FUCKING COVER!!!!
This was… hard to read/listen to. Not bc it wasn’t good (it was) but bc you can see the manipulation happening on the page, you can feel the dread, you can make the conclusion jumps that this isn’t gonna all end up okay, and you just gotta stew in it and witness it. It’s awful. And it’s great. Both narrators did a fabulous job. One I have listened to any enjoyed before, and one was new to me, but I really liked them both.
I’ve always been fascinated by cults. What draws ppl in, how and why do they stay, what helps them get out, if they do? And this does a really great job of showing that.. really, anyone can be sucked in by a cult, and to assume you can’t is your first mistake. Bea goes willingly; consumed by loss and so alone and young and unsure what to do, Lev is a seductive relief. Lo goes in guns blazing, skeptical as hell, literally tying to prove its cult-ness; and she gets sucked in too. Bc she is just as alone and unsure, and ppl who are actively trying to manipulate others are good at seeing this, and preying upon it. Watching the sisters (both povs, in parallel timelines) get sucked in by this (awful, horrible, stupid) man was really hard to listen too, but they’re love for each other (and Emmy) keeping them going, was also a beautiful love story in its own way.
Just… SISTERS!!!!!!
AND THAT FUCKING COVER!!!!