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nataliebootlah's review
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Death of parent and Murder
Moderate: Abandonment, Mental illness, and Sexual content
hanlov's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
4.5
Moderate: Abandonment, Murder, Religious bigotry, and Death of parent
Minor: Blood
faduma's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Gore, Physical abuse, Abandonment, and Stalking
ailiscr32's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
Moderate: Grief and Murder
Minor: Abandonment, Death, and Death of parent
deedireads's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
June Farrow is last in a long line of Farrow women, all of whom have eventually gone mad. Or so she thinks. Until she, too, begins seeing the red door…and finally goes through it.
The Unmaking of June Farrow is part sweeping time-travel, part love story, part murder mystery, and fully unputdownable. It’s the perfect book if you liked Starling House and Addie LaRue and you’re looking for a fast, immersive read that you’ll want to gobble up in one day. I also loveddd the way this centers on a matrilinear line of incredible women assumed to be mad (you know where that’s going!).
This will probably get shelved with contemporary fiction (although also historical fiction — again, time travel); it’s much more magical realism than fantasy. As with all time travel novels (and all books with magic that aren’t hardcore fantasy), you can’t wait around for the magic system’s rules or origination, because we aren’t going to get it. But if you’re just along for the ride, it’s a hell of a time.
Graphic: Abandonment and Violence
Moderate: Mental illness
Minor: Religious bigotry and Sexual content
kelseyholler's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Dementia, Abandonment, and Murder
Moderate: Grief
mandareads222's review
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Mental illness and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Murder, Grief, Abandonment, Religious bigotry, and Death
Minor: Stalking, Sexual content, Death of parent, Police brutality, and Medical content
cinnamonspy's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Moderate: Abandonment
Minor: Sexual content
ec_holland's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
I found the plot to be a bit too predictable, but nonetheless enjoyable. The magical realism that this book sits in isn’t as rich or unique as other stories. The ending felt very womp womp for as well thought out as the mystery was set up. The final reveal happened and then it was just all over in what felt like a forced happy ending?
Because of how it ended, the mood of the book changed for me.
Otherwise it was really well laced in atmosphere, family relationships, just enough romance, and mystery!
Graphic: Violence, Abandonment, and Murder
whatmadsreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Blood and Murder
Moderate: Death of parent, Blood, and Abandonment
Minor: Child death