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4.33 AVERAGE
4.33 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
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:
No
This was a phenomenal horror that really was able to scare me while still having an amazing plot and cast of characters that also made me laugh.
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-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:
Yes
Where do I begin with this book? Well, first with Nat Cassidy's writing, which is just as excellent as it was in Nestlings. All the characters felt real and unique. I especially felt connected to Jess and what she was going through. I also could relate to so many of the themes in this book and what Nat Cassidy was saying with this book. His author's notes at the end of his books are some of the best and never skip reading. them. If you want to pick this book up, but are scared, stop being scared and read it.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of the ebook in exchange for my honest review.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of the ebook in exchange for my honest review.
What a fascinating book about love & fear. Life is full of different emotions and we as humans hate the feeling of fear. We want to escape from it but in all reality, it’s that fear that makes us who we are. We can’t escape human emotions…we have to be bold & embrace them.
“Love is a shape-shifting monster.”
“Love is a shape-shifting monster.”
adventurous
dark
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book scared the shit out of me. I was so fucking terrified and regretted my decision to read it. I wanted to stop, but I couldn’t! That’s one thing this genre does to me: I’m scared, but I can’t stop! But it got better, I guess… or maybe I just got used to the terror? Idk. I even found myself laughing at one point, not that anything was funny.
It is about fear, belief, and dads. Very odd combination, I know, but that’s truly what it is. And when it was time to rate it, I couldn’t think of anything but 5 stars.
Tropes and vibes:
* Horror
* Paranormal
* On the run
* Dark fairytale
* Severe daddy issues
* Suspense
* Third-person POV
Ratings:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🫑
It is about fear, belief, and dads. Very odd combination, I know, but that’s truly what it is. And when it was time to rate it, I couldn’t think of anything but 5 stars.
Tropes and vibes:
* Horror
* Paranormal
* On the run
* Dark fairytale
* Severe daddy issues
* Suspense
* Third-person POV
Ratings:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🫑
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
fast-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:
Yes
ignoring my disappointment that this was NOT a werewolf book. meeting the book where it is. breathing in slowly, breathing out slowly, and behaving in a measured and rational way.
i enjoyed this book a lot. jess' character voice is sort of obnoxious at the very beginning, but she soon becomes too occupied by the plot (and i became so absorbed by it myself) that how annoying it is sort of fades into the background.i mean, it almost lost me when the kid pulled fckin who framed roger rabbit characters out of a hotel television and they started killing people with bullets that had pointy teeth and turned them into mounds of viscera and then they escaped by floating gently off of the roof like balloons, it was touch and go there for a minute, compounded by the fact that for whatever reason the name of the movie was never spoken and it was just described in an obvious way instead, like the roger rabbit scene nearly broke my resolve, but cassidy pulled it back; the book was good. great, even. and i totally thought well-adjusted things about my own father the entire time i was reading it.
ik i just made that fuss about the annoying character voice, but the writing style is truly spectacular. the gore? sublime. and there are moments of absolute poetry in here, and they're not even far between. there's one particular instance where a character's injuries are described as 'parentheticals' and that was Such a turn of phrase...
the exploration of themes in this book is so sincere and thoughtful that it really carried the story. and water is wet. but i mean it: i completely lost track of the parts of the narration that had me cautious and pessimistic at the outset because i was invested in the ideas enough to ignorethe fact that the concept of a military experiment resulted in a child who could change reality based on his whims, because really WHAT part of human physiology would you even experiment on to net that outcome? like it really DID all come together in a way that i found, if not satisfying, then unsatisfying in a way that struck the right chord. like a natural dissatisfaction. a warm disappointment. like understanding. anyway
i enjoyed this book a lot. jess' character voice is sort of obnoxious at the very beginning, but she soon becomes too occupied by the plot (and i became so absorbed by it myself) that how annoying it is sort of fades into the background.
ik i just made that fuss about the annoying character voice, but the writing style is truly spectacular. the gore? sublime. and there are moments of absolute poetry in here, and they're not even far between. there's one particular instance where a character's injuries are described as 'parentheticals' and that was Such a turn of phrase...
the exploration of themes in this book is so sincere and thoughtful that it really carried the story. and water is wet. but i mean it: i completely lost track of the parts of the narration that had me cautious and pessimistic at the outset because i was invested in the ideas enough to ignore