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marenstunes's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Kidnapping, Torture, Physical abuse, Body horror, Violence, Cannibalism, Self harm, and Blood
woodpusher's review against another edition
3.0
Bien escrita. La novela me permitió asomarme a un mundo que ignoeraba que existía: el de las creepypastas (Slenderman, Jeff the killer) y a los videos de terror urbano (Beware the walrus). Hasta me dió tema de conversación con mis hijos. ¿Creerán que muchos chicos se animan a escribir para alimentar este submundo? Y algunos llegan por esta vía a Lovecraft y su cofradía, sus ideas del horror cósmico y los primigenios, a Ctulhu y a Moby Dick...
readingwithsierra's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
alyssamgarcia007's review against another edition
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
jaqueline's review against another edition
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
magenta_menace's review against another edition
4.75
a nasty, visceral, and brutally honest portrayal of delusional girlhood. the body horror in this was spectacular, and while i usually struggle with translations and finding them awkward, this flowed beautifully. this may not be for everyone but ooh boy, it definitely was for me.
notonlyhuman's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
5.0
carlaribeiro's review against another edition
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.75
mpginter's review against another edition
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
trauma manifests in different ways, but the way this teacher was so willing to believe a teenagers lies that so obviously fed her paranoia sort of took me out of it. there’s a really long section where a teacher reads a deeply inappropriate essay by a teenager and unfortunately, as i have been a teacher myself, i had a hard time putting myself in the teachers shoes and just kept imagining how i would react if a student submitted something like that to me, especially claiming to know her fears so well . the teachers pov then says she found the essay mostly disturbing because it felt like an adult wrote it, not a teenager. but she’s wrong. the fact that she thinks this only highlights her own trauma and immaturity . idk, i think i would have enjoyed this more if the thesis, like so many other books like this, wasn’t teenager girls are just evil and mean sometimes. it just makes me wonder what type of women the author surrounds herself with because wtf.