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Särmikäs Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent

384 reviews

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

 demorou um pouco para engatar no começo, mas depois foi uma leitura rápida e fluida, gostei e acabei gostando dos personagens
mas fiquei um pouco triste com o final

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Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

SYNOPSIS
  • Sally can’t remember anything before her 7th birthday. She was adopted by a couple, and she doesn’t recall life before them.
  • Sally is in her 40s now, and her father recently passed from cancer. Her mother had died some time ago. Sally has always been a loner, and she has struggled socially. She gets severe anxiety when dealing with others. 
  • Peter’s story intertwines, and it starts when he is a young boy in the 1970s. 

MY THOUGHTS
  • Heavy topics.
  • Seamlessly woven together.
  • Writing flows so well. Impossible to put down.
  • Compelling, engrossing, & devastating read.
  • Two POVs + alternates between past & present.
  • Well-developed characters. Loved getting to learn the back stories.
  • It’s impossible to not root for Sally!

TL;DR: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Compelling, engrossing, & devastating read. Finished in 24 hrs.

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dark emotional mysterious sad 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

Up until the ending of this book, I thought it would be 5 stars from me. What a letdown of an ending! Really awful. What happened?! Just so disappointing. 

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Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

‘It’s hard,’ I said, ‘I’m forty-four and I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.’ 
Same Sally gal, same.

I don’t even know where to start with this one.

At first, this wasn’t a page turner but then WOAH everything changed for me. Even though some of it was kinda expected - S for example, I was still absolutely hooked. 

Very very dark book, even though I won’t lie I wasn’t a massive fan of Sally, my heart still hurt so so much for her. 

I’m not even going to touch upon Peter. Absolutely disgusted me 

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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dark 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: Yes

I found the book really interesting and engaging but I didn’t like the end. There was no closure and any character development that happened through the book was suddenly undone.

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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Too disturbing for me 

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