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sarah984'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
4.0
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Body horror
Moderate: Self harm, Sexual content, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Death, and Emotional abuse
Minor: Eating disorder, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Drug use, Vomit, Ableism, and Excrement
keen'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? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Body horror, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content
Moderate: Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Confinement
Minor: Excrement and Blood
kurumipanda's review
- 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
3.0
Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Gore, Mental illness, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Excrement
Moderate: Grief, Blood, Drug use, and Vomit
Minor: Confinement
judassilver's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.25
Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Medical content, Murder, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body horror, Violence, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Cursing, Death, and Self harm
Moderate: Suicide attempt, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness
Minor: Gun violence, Cannibalism, Car accident, Homophobia, and Excrement
parasitoid_apologist's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Sexual content, Body horror, and Suicide attempt
wyabook234'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
3.25
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Body horror
Moderate: Suicide attempt and Violence
Minor: Gore
stephanieluxton'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
2.25
The middle of this book is so boring. I felt like nothing that happened in the entire bulk of the book meant anything. There was extra characters we didn't need. The spooks basically stop entirely til the end. Then it ends and I didn't appreciate the level of ambiguity there was. It felt anticlimactic. This book could have been way shorter.
Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, and Alcohol
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Death, Murder, Body horror, Gore, Excrement, Bullying, and Blood
lady_bountiful's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit
ghast'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? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Vomit, Alcoholism, and Addiction
errantdreams's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Wow, the characters. Okay. Phew! Nakota is positively repellant. She uses people. She manipulates people. In fact, I daresay she does not bother to interact with anyone unless she is using and manipulating them. She knows Nicholas loves her and uses that to twist him around her little finger. She’s calculatedly vicious. As for Nicholas, he isn’t Mr. Perfect himself. He loves Nakota in his own weird way, mostly by letting her walk all over him. He spends most of his time drunk. If Nakota had been the point of view character, she would have been too unlikable and obnoxious. Nicholas is perfect as the PoV character, because while he’s no angel, he’s better enough to be engaging despite (or maybe because of) his flaws. Both characters constantly grate against one another. It galls Nakota that Nicholas is transforming when she is not. Nearly all of the characters in here are deeply flawed people.
The flow of the narrative–told from Nicholas’s point of view–is somewhat stream-of-consciousness-like. There’s a lot of exploration of Nicholas’s thoughts and ruminations, and yet I wasn’t bored at all once I got into the story. I never felt like we were retreading too much ground, or that there wasn’t a need for it, or that it slowed things down. Nicholas’s thoughts made things more interesting instead of less.
My only (totally minor) objection is that I wanted just a little bit more at the end. I felt like it ended a bit abruptly. The ending was still very good; I just felt it wasn’t quite as amazing as the rest of the book.
Content note: Sex, animal harm/death, suicidality, and the amount of violence and gore you can expect from pretty much any horror novel.
Graphic: Animal death
Moderate: Sexual content and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Blood