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c_dmckinney's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Blood, Gore, Abandonment, Death, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Trafficking, Violence, and Gun violence
Moderate: Child death, Misogyny, and Murder
Minor: Rape, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Car accident, and Sexual assault
okafon's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Death, Child death, Death of parent, and Violence
napqueeniereads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Violence
jayden_chancery's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.0
That said, this book was not good. IN MY OPINION.
I found many if not all of the characters extremely unlikable. And every time I started to like one of them they would do something to ruin that. I couldn’t even have a favorite character because of how bad all of them behaved. And this is not to say that misbehaving characters can’t be a good thing, in many books it helps keep you entertained and create new problems. But in this story it felt like it was simply written in for the heck of it.
Throughout the book but especially in the beginning, characters and/or the narrator would say weird or inappropriate things. Such as
The plot? What plot? SERIOUSLY WHAT WAS THE PLOT?? I couldn’t tell you. I understand that this is the first book in a series, but you could at least get us to an exciting part before we’re 4/5 of the way through the book! It was boring and, honestly, if it wasn’t assigned reading it would have been in my DNF list very quickly.
Overall, it wasn’t entertaining, it wasn’t well written, the characters made me annoyed and grossed out, and i did not like it. I will not be reading the rest of the series. But my classmates have said that “it gets better”. I would sure hope so.
Graphic: Bullying, Death, Violence, and Torture
Moderate: Death of parent, Gun violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Cursing
Minor: Alcohol, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Child death, Sexism, and Suicide
olivia_faye's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Death and Grief
Moderate: Trafficking and Kidnapping
Minor: Sexual assault and Murder
booklife4life's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Death, Murder, Grief, Death of parent, Violence, and Kidnapping