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stepnic'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
4.0
Graphic: Cancer
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Murder, Alcohol, Bullying, Classism, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Violence
Minor: Sexual assault, Rape, Child abuse, Child death, War, Suicide, Infidelity, Infertility, and Cursing
alisonannk'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
4.5
Graphic: Chronic illness, Medical content, Terminal illness, Drug abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Bullying, Cancer, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Infidelity
Moderate: Death and Child abuse
Minor: Excrement
toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
What I can tell you is that this is a murder mystery wherein you are provided texts, emails, and other bits of evidence for the case and are basically meant to solve it alongside the two young lawyers, Femi and Charlotte. I loved how this book was written *so* much. I'm nosey, so I loved the feel of reading people's emails and snooping around their shit. Plus, I really enjoyed actively trying to solve the mystery. I broke my tabs out, I got out my pen and my journal, and got to work. I simply had the best time. I can't BELIEVE that this is a debut novel. This author is a total auto-buy for me from here on out.
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Murder, Medical content, Mental illness, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Violence, Body horror, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Child death, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, and Addiction
Moderate: Misogyny, Stalking, Excrement, Rape, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault
Minor: Animal death, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Alcohol, and Vomit
booksjessreads'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? It's complicated
4.0
When I bought this book, I expected it to be <i>purely</i> emails, texts etc. with a page at the end telling you if you got it right, but this is not what you get. Emails and texts make a large chunk of it, but you do actually see the correspondence of the people trying to solve the crime alongside you and their texts to one another summarise the events that have just happened, as well as posing questions that help you along the way. You are not completely left to your own devices. It is really interesting to see their thought processes alongside your own.
Each group of characters has their own subplot going on, and they all intermingle in their own way. In the beginning it was quite hard to piece together who was who and what subplot belonged to which family/set of relations. However, when you become engrossed in the book it completely encapsulates you and it does start to make sense. I think this is what knocked me from giving it 5 stars - there were too many characters in it for me. However, I think this in itself was carried off so well and so realistic because real-life crimes involve a lot of people in the periphery and so despite this, it was so cleverly done.
Graphic: Cancer, Toxic friendship, Medical content, Murder, and Child death
Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Miscarriage, and Excrement