Reviews

Friends Like These by Jennifer Lynn Alvarez

gabstar43's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

jackieyvette's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• 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

4.5

Wow. This book is dark and twisted and seemingly straightforward, but is just a whole mess in a really great way. 
I don’t want to say too much and risk ruining it for someone, so I’ll just say I think this story can be summed up in one sentence to me and that is: people are literally insane. 
I feel like this could be a really popular book in the same vein as something like We Were Liars and I’m so happy I got here before the flock appears. 

Crying score: yeah, a little. 

PS read TWs 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Rape, Stalking, Drug use, Infidelity, Murder, Sexual violence, Violence, Addiction, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Child death, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Bullying, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Blood, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Vomit

sophisanna's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

super easy and fast to get through but it just fell flat compared to lies like wildfire for me. the red herrings were way too obvious and i called the 3 biggest mysteries like 150 pages before they were solved each. also, after reading both of this author's ya thrillers, im genuinely concerned if she even has an editor at all 😭 llw already had a grammar mistake and a literal character name switch up (?!), this one had some tense shifting and some weird wording. but for a quick read it was okay.

nieve_charlotte's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

thoughtsofaromantic's review

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

k_in_bookland's review

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

aimsreadz's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• 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

5.0

abbywarner's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

anne2899's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

isobel_shobs's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

What a page turner! Glad I picked this up.