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traa's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Violence, Car accident, Child death, Death, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Gore, Stalking, Grief, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gun violence
Minor: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Mass/school shootings, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent
franknforter's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Murder, Child death, Stalking, Death, Grief, and Mental illness
chloseencounter's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
The description of the book sounds so fun and interesting, I think this could have been a fun teen romp slasher style
I wouldn’t recommend this one unless you’re super desperate for a short story, it was mostly unexciting and unremarkable.
Graphic: Blood, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Violence, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Cursing and Stalking
Minor: Suicidal thoughts
livlamentloathe's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Stalking, Death, and Murder
Moderate: Car accident, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence
Minor: Grief and Toxic friendship
bookishbutch's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Stalking, Grief, Death, Toxic friendship, Blood, Mental illness, and Child death
Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Cursing
becca_w_'s review
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Death, Gore, Mental illness, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Body horror, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, and Violence
Minor: Alcohol, Bullying, Cursing, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, and Vomit
ahumblebard's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
No shade if you really liked this one or anything, but it really wasn't for me.
Graphic: Stalking, Death, and Violence
Moderate: Grief and Mental illness
Minor: Vomit and Suicide
magellen's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Good heartbreaking slasher. 👍👍
Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Murder
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Stalking, and Grief
cheye13's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I did go in without having read the full synopsis, which I think really helped. I quite enjoyed the front half, not seeing a lot of the reveals coming. I really appreciated the nuances within the content: Sawyer is very much an Indigenous teen boy with a very specific experience, but he also has a very Everyman vibe to him. He has parents, friends, hopes, dreams – just like everyone else. It feels like any of his friends could step into his role and the story would be the same, which brings the mannequin concept full circle, imo.
The writing style and voice is very unique; it fits the story so well and is very fun to read. It's very evocative of a film and also a campfire/sleepover story, but still takes moments to use written word to full effect. There are a few sentences that stopped me short to either send a chill down my spine or an ache through my heart.
I think the writing style was spectacular, but the brevity and predictability of the storyline crossed with the universailty of the main perspective didn't really let me sink my claws in.
Graphic: Violence, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder
Moderate: Gore, Animal death, Blood, Car accident, and Grief
Minor: Abandonment, Body horror, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Drug use, and Suicidal thoughts
There is an early line in which Sawyer mentions he "stopped taking his meds" but it is never revisited or explained. Treads a very thin line toward an ableist trope.booksthatburn's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Sawyer is a careful but unreliable narrator. He faithfully tells what happened, but his idea of what is literally happening versus what he's merely convinced is happening leaves a lot of very unsettling possibilities open. By the end I settled on an answer, but part of me still thinks the second option is viable. It shook me on a fundamental level and I’m still thinking about it days later. The story is told mostly linearly, and those small deviations from linearity start to add up as Sawyer gradually decides to tell backstory when it becomes necessary (but usually well after it’s first relevant).
It’s fantastic, I loved every minute! I can’t recommend it highly enough.
Graphic: Grief, Murder, Child death, and Death
Moderate: Mental illness, Vomit, Violence, Gore, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide
Minor: Racial slurs, Medical content, Ableism, Sexual content, and Car accident
TW for Harry Potter reference (brief).