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kibiiiariii's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Gore, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Violence, Abortion, Chronic illness, Classism, Confinement, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Abandonment, Ableism, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Torture, Stalking, and Suicidal thoughts
booking_along's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
but it took me a while to find my footing in this story - it set a good while after the ending of the first and the exact changes that happens with each of the characters throughout the story aren’t very well explained, instead they are mostly sprinkled throughout the entire book.
not my favorite type of continuation in a series where each book feels like i need to be reintroduced to all the characters, their behaviors and reasons.
the mystery in this was interesting but felt a bit dragged out and in the end the solution of it came too easily to everyone especially considering that they all didn’t see it before.
i disliked the reintroduction of the person that Raven had owned money too but was supposed to have been cleared up at the end of book one but for no real reason brought back in this book.
everything in this story could have happened as it did just without those added scenes and to me it would have been more enjoyable to read that way.
nor did i see the need to include or drag out the stuff that happened in berlin. why was that even in this book?
the ending it self…. it seems that we get yet again a time jump and characters going to very different places.
which isn’t bad in itself i just hope it will be handled a little better in the next installment as it has been dealt with in this one.
all in all?
it was good.
i loved the historical moments and historical medical info was interesting and always and i liked the characters in the book.
i really enjoy the Simpsons household.
but i am also a little disappointed that this book could have also have been the first book in a series with how little it actually continued and build on the first book. only thing that kept going was the strange little thing of will they/ won’t they that’s happening between sarah and will.
still not a bad book.
but i do hope the next one will be a bit better.
Graphic: Kidnapping, Death of parent, Violence, Blood, Child abuse, Terminal illness, Abortion, Death, Sexism, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Gore, Medical content, Physical abuse, and Murder