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surefinewhatever_'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Death, Animal death, Drug use, and Mental illness
Minor: Vomit, Classism, and Racism
averyrembish's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Death, Murder, and Grief
Moderate: Gun violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Animal death
Minor: Racism, Classism, Bullying, Outing, Transphobia, and Vomit
blkunicorn's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Gaslighting, Murder, Death, Grief, Animal death, and Mental illness
Moderate: Alcoholism and Blood
dernhelms_bag'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: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Murder, Violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, Alcoholism, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Abandonment, Gun violence, and Blood
Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Vomit, Bullying, Classism, Lesbophobia, Body horror, and Eating disorder
queergoth_reads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Unfortunately I found the characters to be a bit unlovable which really made it hard for me to feel anything for them.
Graphic: Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Grief
Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Emotional abuse, Animal death, and Child death
Minor: Outing, Alcoholism, Classism, Racism, Drug use, and Forced institutionalization
taleofabibliophile's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Mental illness, Grief, Blood, Murder, Death, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, and Animal death
Moderate: Drug use, Sexual content, and Cursing
Minor: Alcoholism, Suicide, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Classism, Racism, and Confinement
_teoeo's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
The ending is what confuses and frustrates me the most. It's totally different from the rest of the book and the last 100 pages felt like I'm reading not the same book anymore but another one with a completely different story.
But I still like the first 250 pages and the style of writing so the book is still 3 out of 5 stars for me.
Moderate: Alcoholism, Murder, Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Animal death, Death, Drug use, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Minor: Racism
faefires'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
We follow deranged literature girlie Felicity as she returns to her def not witchy school after definitely not murdering her ex girlfriend, who is now def not haunting her. We then watch her descent into utter madness, obsession, paranoia, magic and darkness. This book is very cliche. There's really nothing novel here, nothing that makes it special or unique in the dark academia murder genre. It's not a satire masterpiece like The Secret History, nor an unique retelling of a Shakespearean tragedy like If We Were Villains. But in my opinion, it didn't need to be. It's a fun, thrilling little murder story, and while it is not particularly novel or revolutionary, I enjoyed it and read it very quickly. It's fairly well written, with my only complaints being the internal monologue of Felicity being quite repetitive at times.
If you think you'll like this book, you probably will. You might guess the twist (I did) but the twist isn't what makes the book good, and you can enjoy it without being shocked. Pick this one up, read it in a day, and enjoy the lesbian murder girlies.
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Toxic relationship and Murder
Minor: Alcoholism
katsbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
βThe question isn't whether magic is real. It's whether I can touch it without being consumed by it.β
This book was alright. The dark academia vibes were spooky and fun. The fact that there was absolutely zero characters that were men was delightful. I didn't fully realize until the very end but every character either identifies as a woman or nonbinary. Loved that representation! I also really liked when the writing got a little meta. However, I found it slightly annoying when the author said something to the extent of "she touched me and I felt a tingle go down my spine" for the 50th time. Like find a new description, please. But ultimately, the atmosphere was this book's saving grace, for sure. The writing and plot weren't terrible. I found different parts intriguing but the first two-thirds or so were kind of slow. It really picked up in the last third but by then I had predicted a major plot twist so when it happened, it didn't impact me the way I expect it was meant to. If YA thrillers and dark academia are your jam, you'd probably enjoy this more than I did.
Graphic: Grief, Murder, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Animal cruelty, Blood, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Gaslighting, Violence, Bullying, and Mental illness
Moderate: Abandonment, Gore, Sexual content, and Classism
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Alcohol, Gun violence, and Cursing
ekahnicole's review against another edition
- 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
2.75
Graphic: Death and Animal death
Moderate: Child abuse and Alcoholism