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fronkiekong's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Torture, and Violence
Really gratuitous fatphobiali_ar_t'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? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Death, Fatphobia, Murder, Violence, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment
aviery's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence
Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, and Rape
Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual violence
aquakerwitch's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Graphic: Fatphobia, Ableism, Murder, Gun violence, Death of parent, Death, Confinement, Child death, Body shaming, and Violence
Moderate: Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Torture
valpyre's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
2.5 stars
i gotta say, the immense fatphobia and ableist language pretty much soured this entire book for me.
i found the parts past the halfway mark the most interesting, basically most of the parts where things are being revealed and bishop collected concrete information. but overall this was super tedious to me, even with the reveal/explanation of the bigger picture.
Graphic: Violence, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Child death, and Murder
Moderate: Ableism, Torture, Grief, Drug abuse, and Blood
Minor: Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault
iviarelle's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
I just kinda can't. And it's for one primary and one secondary reason.
Firstly, and most obviously, this book doesn't offer its female characters any depth. Every woman on the page is a one note tune. Even in the twists that involve a woman, they're the most overused and unsubtle kind of tropes. If depth is attributed to a woman, it's only through telling us she's more, not by showing us. And that's a problem.
The second problem is... Less widely recognized. The men in this story don't get a whole lot of depth either, which is a little obfuscated by the much wider range of types of men that exist in the story. But, some of those men are horrific tropes walking.
Take Ravencourt: every moment spent with him is spent thinking about how fat he is. Almost every paragraph includes some remark about shameful gross obesity or how difficult his being shamefully obese makes it to walk down a flat hallway. While it's true that being fat is hard, there's WAY too much judgement and downright fatphobia or fatmisia in every line of the parts where he's mentioned.
Take the drug dealing doctor, the privileged rapist whose mother buys his way out of trouble again and again... It's all part of a pattern and not one that flatters the author's sender of creativity or knowledge of human nature.
You could argue that the point of the story is to be flat and unsubtle, but I don't buy it. I think this could have been much more interesting if the author had given a damn. And giving a damn is the least we should expect from people or books these days.
Graphic: Blood, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Torture, and Violence
Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
thatpine'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? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
I found the ultimate premise at the end of the book to be intriguing and a new idea, but the amount of energy and frustration it took me to get there was far too much. Reading in some spots was a chore, and there were so many thing happening at once it got confusing. Further, the rules for the plot I found to be lacking and not clear at all, making the story even more muddled.
The fat shaming was easily the worst part.
If you like mysteries that are not necessarily the “norm” and can enjoy a slow pace, once you get halfway through it does get better.
Moderate: Fatphobia, Gun violence, Sexual violence, and Violence
Minor: Rape and Child death
tesskt's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Fatphobia, Child death, Death, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Violence
confusedetc's review against another edition
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Minor: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, and Sexual violence
emmaflood's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Violence
Moderate: Blood
Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence