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itsheyfay's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Violence, Body horror, Cancer, Car accident, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Misogyny
Moderate: Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Sexual harassment, and Abandonment
Minor: Mass/school shootings, Ableism, and Racism
apestforwrens's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Physical abuse, Medical content, Misogyny, Death, Gun violence, Murder, Mental illness, and Grief
Moderate: Chronic illness, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Medical content, Police brutality, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Animal death, Cancer, Confinement, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Child abuse, Cursing, Mental illness, and Abandonment
Its a slasher, there is genre typical content. Because it takes place from within the heroine's head, there is some derealization.leahrosiee's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Kidnapping, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Toxic friendship, Death, Gun violence, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Gore, Blood, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Mental illness
Moderate: Sexism, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Stalking, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Vomit
Minor: Child death, Death of parent, Cancer, and Excrement
sheaisaliterarywreck's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I did not.
Trigger warnings: depictions of violence, gore, gun violence, emotional and psychological abuse, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, discussion and implication of sexual trauma and assault, instances of negative/derogatory language about mental health issues.
Trope-y Summary: Unreliable Narrator sees a major danger coming, but no one believes her—the girl who cried wolf and all that. Now UN must embark on a dangerous quest to both save her friends and convince them they need to save themselves.
Hendrix's writing is fast-paced and easy-to-read. I actually quite liked the odd glimpses of reddit threads and newspaper clippings that were interspersed between chapters, as well. My good things to say about the book might end there.
I'm a sucker for an unreliable narrator, but I'm not certain I've ever encountered one quite as unreliable as Lynne. I found her distorted reality actually quite difficult to try to co-exist in with her (I found reading from her perspective quite anxiety-inducing—as was the point, I'm sure). I think Lynne is supposed to have OCD—(view spoiler)—, but the portrayal was lacklustre. Granted, as someone who has OCD, I am overly bored of OCD only being depicted through pushed-to-the-brink recluses and what I like to call one-hit-wonders (characters who miraculously have their OCD show up in only one "theme" or tiny area of their life that never evolves as their values shift like the chronic ego-dystonic illness actually does). Lynne is somehow both of these tropes I dislike.
Also, MAJOR ENDING SPOILER:
Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Gore, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Sexual violence, Abandonment, Cancer, Terminal illness, Body horror, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse
Minor: Sexual assault and Suicidal thoughts
kelly617's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Violence
Minor: Ableism, Alcohol, Child death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Cancer
mallory10100's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Abandonment, Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Cancer, Car accident, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Violence, Vomit, and Police brutality
Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Vomit, and Police brutality