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kitsune_kae's review
- 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
2.0
Graphic: Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Death, Gore, Sexual assault, and Vomit
Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Grief, Mental illness, Racism, and Stalking
Minor: Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, and Cursing
Trauma, childhood trauma,boundforinfinity's review
- 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
3.5
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The main character, Jade, is a hard character to like. The assumption that you have to be "gothy" to like horror movies such as Saw, the $1 Billion dollar film franchise that's been running for almost two decades, was an annoying catch to the novel. Of course teenagers like horror movies - they need to prove their hard. (This is coming from one of said teenagers that never grew out of their gothy/horror phase).
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The constant allusions to the famous slashers felt pretentious at times and I really struggled at times to read the book knowing that a good portion of the text could go over my head if I hadn't seen these other works.
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Onto the good however, I really did enjoy the story and the twist ending. I loved the references to the Native American culture, Stephen Graham Jones own signature no doubt. The layout of an extra credit project alongside the actual story itself was refreshing and a fun way to engage the reader with Jade.
Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Death, Body horror, Grief, and Suicide attempt
badmom's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Blood, and Death
Moderate: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Rape, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Animal death, and Grief
foolzerrand's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Cultural appropriation, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Violence
unphilosophize's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
I loved the prologue, but I didn’t really enjoy the main plot of the book. I think the parts where they talk about slashers is the strongest part of the book.
If you don’t like slasher you’ll probably find this book fairly alienating.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Vomit, and Violence
Moderate: Abortion