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liez's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Car accident, and Murder
rae1019's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Suicide, Grief, Abortion, and Murder
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Suicide, and Car accident
goodnightngo's review against another edition
3.0
Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol
readsandrants's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Child death, Death, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Suicide
Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Car accident, and Abortion
Minor: Child abuse
mengzhenreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
However, what kept me from giving this book 4 stars was that the actual mystery was fairly predictable, and I don't think that this book was particularly original in its concept and plot. This is a great book if you're a YA mystery-thriller fan who's on the lookout for more content regardless of how stereotypical or predictable it might be or if you're new to these types of books and haven't yet become fully familiar with many of the tropes that YA mystery authors use in their books.
Graphic: Death, Suicide, and Murder
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Abortion
Minor: Child abuse and Drug use
lorie336'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
5.0
Graphic: Child death and Death
Moderate: Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Grief, Car accident, and Murder
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Pedophilia, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Abortion, and Death of parent
junefish's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Grief, and Murder
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Car accident, and Abortion
Minor: Cancer, Child abuse, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Terminal illness, Stalking, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent
the pedophilia is with underage teenagers (not small children)imstephtacular's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
4.0
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, and Grief
Minor: Child abuse and Abortion
booksiread_'s review against another edition
- 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
3.5
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, and Death of parent
Minor: Gun violence, Hate crime, Pedophilia, and Police brutality
karlybug's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
people are very confused by this book. i picked it up because it’s got a killer cover (truly, no pun intended) and the back, as well as several reviews, compared it to Riverdale, and I was feeling like a campy Halloweentime romp.
this is NOT that.
i don’t know how to explain why the Riverdale comparison feels so incredibly wrong having finished this without giving away some things... i feel like maybe the people making those comparisons have never seen an episode of that (absolutely insane) show?
also, i won’t presume anything about a stranger’s life, but i also feel that the people who find Monica one dimensional or without growth have perhaps not felt depression or a deep personal loss... or at the very least not both at the same time. Monica’s journey for me (as someone who has experienced them) feels very true to these things, as well as PTSD.
all in all, i went in hoping for a nutso unrealistic scary thriller and instead got what to me felt like a very truthful and painful account of something that very well could happen. (again, people calling the plot unrealistic—are you living in a world more sheltered than mine? can i join you there?)
not the fastest paced and nothing shocked me. the chapters from the past felt mostly unnecessary, and i would like to tweak a few things regarding the final reveal and the denouement, but i’m not sure what everyone else is complaining about. if anything, we should be complaining about that (terrific) cover for essentially being false advertising.
[side note: as a young adult—in the truest sense; an adult who is still young, not the inaccurately named genre into which this book falls—i felt a real sense of the ways in which adults consistently, with children and teenagers, assume and enforce the idea that they automatically know better, and kids are idiots, and shut up. in my 20s i’ve had that horrible realization i assume everyone has—that adults actually DON’T know what they’re doing and have just been lying to all of us for years. it feels like such a raw deal to come to this understanding and as i continue to grapple with it, whether the author intended this or not, this book really drove that home for me at a few different points. i truly don’t think it’s said enough that adults don’t have everything figured out, and that kids shouldn’t automatically trust all of them, just because they’re older.]
Graphic: Child death and Death
Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide
Minor: Sexual assault