3.6 AVERAGE

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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
adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

The beginning was hard to get into. It was a very slow start for me. The middle had an interesting concept, that I felt could have been better executed. And what was that ending....?! I don't want to give any spoilers, but I read all that, for that? No, thank you.
malikadhp's profile picture

malikadhp's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 30%

I don’t know, the writing felt flat. Not my type of book
adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This was like… not BAD but I didn’t love it. I had no idea who the killer was until Allie found out yet I still was like wth? Why ? It didn’t make any sense to me. I also don’t think the ending was fair .. it was kinda fucked up

So weird – not what I was expecting at all – and the killer was such a shock.
dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

metrometric's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 5%

I found most of the characters and dialogue pretty formulaic (and kind of annoying) right off, and the main character really seemed like a "not like the other girls" type. Maybe she improves, but I wasn't going to stick around long enough to find out.

I also wish the main character being true crime podcast obsessed wasn't such a common theme in mystery novels now -- I like mystery but hate true crime for how exploitative it is. That's a very personal nitpick, but it didn't make me want to read the book more, you know?
adventurous mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No