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challenging
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This book is heavy and confronting, especially at first, but it grips you in a way you can't pull back from. As a lifelong Brisbane resident I particularly enjoyed the references to specific locations and found this fictional near-future Queensland fascinating to learn about. I'm sitting here, late at night after finishing this book since I couldn't put it down in the final act, just in awe of how beautifully it all comes together. I wish I could meet Hannah in real life. What a fascinating and perfectly written character. I hope Georgia Harper has more ideas up her sleeve.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Pedophilia, Grief, Blood, Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Child death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Gore, Torture, and Medical content
Minor: Car accident, Addiction, Death of parent, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Abandonment
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