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katekatekate's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
adele_allen's review against another edition
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.75
gracie_goose's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
This book stands on the border of gothic horror and Gothic thriller, and I loved it. Read and wonder whether the mysterious fates of the Chapel sisters are merely strange and devastating or something more. There are moments that drag or that seem strangely removed, and what really keeps it from 5 stars for me is the sense that we get rushed after the portion of the book that focuses in depth on Rosalind. Would read again!
kell_xavi's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
slow-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide attempt and Misogyny
Moderate: Rape, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Blood, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Forced institutionalization
Minor: Gun violence
laurie_reads_book's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
proseplease's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
bmpicc's review against another edition
4.0
I went in blind on the recommendation of a library patron and... wow. This was not at all what I expected when I saw the cover. It was sold to me as "strong women". It was also family, mental health, love, feminism, historical fiction (?), ghost story, mystery, and much more.
If you are looking for something different, take a walk in the wedding cake house and see what you come away with.
If you are looking for something different, take a walk in the wedding cake house and see what you come away with.
meaganmart's review against another edition
4.0
I screamed loudly for as long as I could, letting the awful sound scrape my throat and strain my muscles. It was a scream worthy of my mother, of my sisters in their final moments. It was the scream of the Chapel women.
I had no idea what to expect when I cracked the spine of The Cherry Robbers but I was struck by how poignant a story Sarai Walker created. The story is not a horror in the traditional sense; the only hidden monsters were the unflinching men of the 1950s who bent women to their will and to their expectations. The true horror at the core of our story was the societal expectations foisted upon women of a certain class and color. The march down the aisle signaled the end of their (limited) freedom, the end of their dreams outside of homemaking and child-rearing, and the beginning of a lifetime of being taken advantage of by husbands who saw them as trinkets to be dusted off and paraded around before being unceremoniously dumped back off in a house in the suburbs while they lived largely in the city.
Readers won't be able to tear themselves away from the unflinching portrait Walker paints of the six Chapel sisters, five who met their untimely deaths and one who survived. The story Iris paints of their childhood and of the hideous events that unfolded through the summers of the 50s will stick with readers long past the final pages.
ja3m3's review against another edition
3.0
This book started off really well with a slow, haunted, creepy build to the deaths of the first sister and second sister, but by the time sisters 4 and 5 die the book started to lose some of it's flare. I think I know how it ended and the message, but maybe not. It was a great book read during spooky October though.
caseysilk's review against another edition
4.0
If you are in the mood for a gothic mystery/thriller hard to name the genre.