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natahoochie'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
5.0
Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Drug use, Stalking, Gore, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Body horror, Blood, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Murder, Death, Child death, Bullying, Rape, Physical abuse, and Violence
Moderate: Pedophilia and Vomit
Minor: Abortion
sarah984'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
2.0
The main character is a woman but she hates and/or belittles all other women (except her grandmother, who is a complete non-entity in this story) and thinks she's unique as a woman due to her misanthropy. The book makes a big deal about it being sexist that stories require women to have trauma to be villains when men can just do what they want, but then gives Maeve villain trauma. The romance is all "oh he was so much bigger than me" straight people crap.
Several quotes and entire scenes are lifted whole cloth from American Psycho but nothing interesting is done with that at all.
I really have to wonder who this book was for. I feel like it was somehow simultaneously too much and too tame, like it's not extreme horror because pretty much everything "extreme" happens off screen, but too much "extreme" content is implied for this to appeal to normies. Baffling book.
Some of the Halloween music trivia was interesting, so 2 stars.
Graphic: Mental illness, Death, Medical content, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Murder
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Confinement, Gore, Torture, Toxic relationship, Classism, Fatphobia, Misogyny, and Violence
Minor: Pedophilia, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Grief, Alcohol, Cannibalism, Vomit, Drug use, Stalking, Physical abuse, Animal death, and Racism