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chloseencounter's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Rape, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, Confinement, Abortion, Blood, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Animal death, Self harm, Violence, Vomit, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Misogyny
yeffin'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? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Graphic: Gore
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Incest
Minor: Alcoholism, Abandonment, Alcohol, Cursing, Abortion, and Addiction
charliebk_2's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Violence, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Blood, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, and Death
rhyanashah's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.25
From the absolutely infuriating main character, incredibly slow moving plot, messy finale, and a bordering obscene amount of referencial head-nodding that makes Ernest Cline's Oasis/Wade Watts series look timid.
I struggled with every aspect of this book, and it's genuinely a shock considering how this book has almost everything i love.
Horror, non-white protagonists who must personally grow in spite of trauma, small town secrets, potential Queer storyline.
Instead i have.... whatever thiw was. An insufferable lead, about 200 unnecessary pages and a lot of loose threads that were "Yada-Yada"'d through at the end. How can i be bored when there's MURDER happening? And yet. The "sisterly" relationship between our main and another character just came across like "historians will say they were friends" energy.
Also TW/Spoiler warning
I must also add that i never EVER feel comfortable about men writing from the perspective of young women/female children who have been S/A'd or R****d.
Whilst not all of the topics i've put in the content warning are Graphic, they are all frequent and i do emplore anyone considering reading this book to consider if they will be affected by these topics, and to avoid if that is the case.
In a summary, i think the book is about 50% too long and i was disappointed by about 150 pages in, but continued on. The ending was VERY disappointing. I only said "medium paced" because 300 pages are slow and 150 aren't but there is no "inconsistently paced" option.
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, Murder, Racism, Deadnaming, Blood, Colonisation, Self harm, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Child death, Rape, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Abortion
As said in my full review: Whilst not all of the topics i've put in the content warning are Graphic, they are all frequent and i do emplore anyone considering reading this book to consider if they will be affected by these topics, and to avoid if that is the case.lh_reads's review against another edition
- 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
4.75
Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Violence, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Blood, Body horror, and Gore
Moderate: Abortion, Pedophilia, and Rape
demon_catheter's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Blood, Suicide, Body horror, Gore, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Rape, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Incest, and Vomit
Minor: Cultural appropriation, Car accident, Colonisation, Abortion, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Pregnancy
regaliaofchaos'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
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Classism, Death, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Violence
Minor: Child abuse and Abortion
mmatvey's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Death and Blood
Moderate: Child abuse and Rape
Minor: Abortion
magellen's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
There are echoes of similar themes, similar pacing and plot markers, similar gore to The Only Good Indians BUT IN THE BEST WAY. Especially with this book being about the Slasher formula. For me its enjoyable to see signature traits of an author's style popping up again. Especially when they come in a beautifully written gore extravaganza.
Great great book and I can't wait for the sequel.
Graphic: Murder
Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Child abuse, Incest, Rape, and Sexual assault
libraryofdoe'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
4.0
On one hand, I found Jade’s story excellent and riveting and genre-defiant yet so obviously reverent of all the slashers that came before it and so, so raw. I found parts of myself in Jade that I almost didn’t want to see. I really like Jones’ writing style and the way he approached the story.
On the other hand I really didn’t like the whodunnit
I may come back and change this rating on further thought, but for now 4 stars feels about right, if a lot lower than I anticipated 75% of the way in.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Vomit
Minor: Abortion, Bullying, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Hate crime, Incest, Medical content, Pedophilia, Mental illness, Ableism, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Racism, Pregnancy, and Drug use