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Sundial by Catriona Ward

44 reviews

uchihas's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Medical content, Violence, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Animal death

Minor: Miscarriage, Vomit, and Self harm

the_book_bee's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Torture, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Violence, Domestic abuse, Blood, Confinement, and Animal death

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Slavery, Addiction, and Confinement

Minor: Trafficking, Cannibalism, and Adult/minor relationship

fictionaladventures's review

dark medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No

2.5

This was good, fine, sorta meh at times for me. I did like how messed up all the characters were, but overall I just wasn’t crazy invested or anything. Definitely creepy, though, and I can see why people would like it more than I did. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Miscarriage, Self harm, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, Infidelity, and Pregnancy

Minor: Sexual content

misscassylee's review

dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Animal death, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body shaming, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Child death, Drug abuse, Murder, and Physical abuse

kermit_the_wrong's review

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Never really *got there*. It had potential but just fizzled out somewhere along the way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Alcohol, Animal death, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Animal cruelty, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Violence, Blood, Death, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, and Suicide

Moderate: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Infertility, and Body horror

noelle1121005's review

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, Death, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Gore, and Toxic relationship

soavezefiretto's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Body horror, Child abuse, and Gore

Moderate: Drug abuse

queersubtext's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Gore, Drug abuse, Animal death, and Blood

karina_dreamsinwords's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

This was a gripping, tension filled, thrill of a rollercoaster ride!!!

Sundial jumps back and forth between timelines and mostly takes place in the past, so keep that in mind. 

The way I was actually confused and not entirely sure what was happening for a biiig chunk of this book😂 maybe that’s the genius of the story, to keep you on your toes and then B A M, Ward hits with the unexpected! 

I guess I can say that I quite enjoyed the culty vibes, and eerie isolated location. That always adds an extra layer of “scary” in my opinion. 

I’m interested in reading other reviews to see if anyone else was as confused as I was throughout reading this one lol. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Miscarriage, Animal death, Domestic abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Drug abuse and Infidelity

bowenlacar's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Blood, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Violence, Child abuse, Death of parent, Death, Drug abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Murder, and Pregnancy