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vickytickytavi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Moderate: Murder, Violence, and Sexual content
Minor: Vomit
annagerman's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Moderate: Death, Vomit, Gaslighting, Murder, and Sexual content
chaos_na_regale's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Gaslighting, Murder, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Infidelity
bookedbymadeline's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
A short and creepy horror novella making for a quick read. Interesting characters and great writing; Flynn is an expert at writing disturbing stories that make me uncomfortable. The last 5-10 pages gave me whiplash with all the plot twists!
Graphic: Violence and Sexual content
Moderate: Vomit, Murder, Infidelity, Suicide, Animal cruelty, and Blood
nabaraditi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Nevertheless, this book horror-mystery thriller. Like you have no clue what’s going to happen to the main character just like they don’t know what they’ve gotten into. It’s amazing!!!!
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Sexual content, and Vomit
Moderate: Infidelity
Minor: Murder and Violence
marthadude's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Gaslighting, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Vomit, Infidelity, Kidnapping, and Sexual content
Minor: Death and Murder
vigil'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
4.5
Graphic: Death of parent, Sexual content, Vomit, Violence, Cursing, and Excrement
Moderate: Murder
Minor: Cancer
malaikawrites's review against another edition
3.0
Hmm. I really loved this book up until the third act conflict, which is where the whole story sorta just… lost all it’s initial eeriness. The main character was great with her smart, and manipulative, ways of working her way through life. She had an interesting backstory that immediately pulled me in and made me want to read more. I loved watching her navigate through being on the other end of the stick and dealing with being manipulated instead. The picture of intelligence that had been painted around her definitely came into question, but I didn’t find myself too mad about it once we got to see her process that and immediately launch herself into a new strategy.
I loved the kid and his highly intelligent ways of working towards getting what he wants. He crafted and maintained multiple narratives at once, which was very impressive from the readers perspective. Stories with open endings that allow you to believe whichever version you want, or believe nothing at all, have always been interesting to me. This story had multiple versions you could believe that were all kinda twisted and definitely in the moral grey area, but were also equally interesting to consider and explore.
The third act conflict is where things fell apart a bit for me. There was a very noticeable over-explanation that took away from both the shock factor and the atmospheric elements of the story. There’s nothing worse than a character telling the whole story to the protagonist. Having the twists and turns of a story told to you instead of the story being told through hints and actions is always a bit anticlimactic. My interest levels dropped a significant amount after that.
It was a great story, and it had a great ending, but it wasn’t told in the best way. There was some things that could’ve been explained less and some things that should’ve had a lot more explanation. The fathers identity reveal was necessary, but a lot more questions about his whereabouts should’ve been left a mystery. Not everything needed one or more explanations, some things could’ve been left with no explanation at all.
All in all I don’t think this was the most memorable read, but it was an entertaining story. It’s short, it’s very interesting and it ended on a great note.
Graphic: Sexual content, Animal cruelty, and Vomit
Moderate: Infidelity and Suicide
Minor: Violence and Murder
voxelbee's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Violence, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Murder, Confinement, Child death, Animal cruelty, and Cursing
fbzcab's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Murder, Sexual content, Suicide, and Vomit