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We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry

10 reviews

faeriefangss's review

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dark funny mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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elderwoodreads's review

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dark funny mysterious reflective slow-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 is the most unique book I read this year, possibly ever. Bray's writing style was a little odd at first but once I was in I was in. Everything I have found listed as cons by other readers were pros to me. I loved the plural first person narration, the slow burn, and the overly verbose descriptions. Please give this one a try.

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talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted 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? It's complicated

2.5

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saintyeehaw's review against another edition

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funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

Had to really force myself to finish this one as the writing style confused me a lot of the time. Despite only being 360 pages, this book feels really long for some reason (30+ page chapters?). The witchcraft was cool and cute in equal measure, but the sports talk was very boring for me personally. I liked several of the characters but since the focus kept changing between the whole team, I never felt like I got to really know any of them. Unfortunately, by the end I was also completely done with the romanticization of high school girls in sexual relationships with adult men and was ready to put the book down and never pick it up again.

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kteq's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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amandalorianxo's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This definitely is more about the twists and turns of what it's like to be on a sports team in addition to the flaws and quirks of female friendships. It's definitely a heavy prose-filled novel but we get to know so much about our characters in this rambunctious group of field hockey players that I didn't mind when we took a deep dive into nearly every player's life story throughout this almost four hundred page novel. I loved that it was set in the tail end of the 80's (some of the references I actually understood/ picked up on as a 90's baby) I also like that you don't have to be an expert at field hockey to understand what's going on. It caters to your inner sports fan, whether you played on a team or not. If you are going in for the witch aspect of it, it doesn't play as huge of a role as I assumed it would. I also assumed Abby Putnam was going to be a bigger character than she ended up being but I still was able to know about her as much as I did the rest of the group.

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