The Catch: The long-awaited debut novel from award-winning writer, Yrsa Daley-Ward by Yrsa Daley-Ward

3.64 AVERAGE

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madbooks7's review against another edition

4.0
challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

guardianmom13's review against another edition

3.0
challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

leah_welch's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 8%
This just wasn’t for me. I don’t enjoy being in the head of either of these women. Instantly immature and awful to each other. Also I couldn’t get past the fact that the heat in London in June is emphasized from the first line and then the next day two different characters described as wearing coats. It was such a strange and unnecessary continuity error.
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madamecorvid's review against another edition

What the fuck did I just read?!? It was like doing origami in the middle of a fever dream.

sjuelich's review against another edition

2.0
challenging mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kreiley's review against another edition

3.75
challenging dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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renss's review against another edition

2.75
adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jengirl66's review against another edition

4.5
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
Very well written and interesting, if a bit confusing premise. 
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idonttcareeeee's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 37%
too fucking weird for me
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nini23's review against another edition

3.0
Preposterous plot, meta novel within a novel structure with sci-fi twists. Honestly, I read this to get a healthy depiction of a childfree life, sorely lacking in fiction. Not entirely satisfactory from that aspect since the two sisters were more the focus rather than the stranger mother. The characters are all flawed in their own way, struggling with trauma and issues such as abandonment by birth parent, sexual coercion by foster parent, social anxiety due to insecure childhood, alcoholism, drug use, mental health disorders. The sisters are obviously loved by the author and they manage to launch a resistance against what is holding them down. The particular challenges that Black women/girls face such as judgements about their hair and being a Black female author are striking.