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Nakarmię Cię Strachem

Trang Thanh Tran

3.5 AVERAGE

mik_rreads's review against another edition

3.5

dark mysterious tense medium-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

spookyash's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional informative 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

rmartin93's review against another edition

2.0

This was OK-- I wanted to like it more than I did. I would recommend it for a variety of reasons: it's an incredibly unique premise, the writing style is really quite beautiful despite the many unfavorable and stomach-turning descriptions throughout the book, it's a haunted house/possession story. I think the author did a pretty decent job of inserting the ick-factor. I love bugs and insects so I was actually pleased to read the many descriptions but I know most would be repulsed by them.
However, it could be a me thing, but I constantly found myself backtracking and feeling like I missed something. The haunting and motivation behind it didn't feel convincing enough to support the awesome premise I was expecting. The ghosts and/or the villains were uninteresting and didn't feel fully formed (if that makes sense).
Didn't live up to my expectations but clearly, there are others out there that totally dug this.

delightfulalot's review against another edition

4.75

dark mysterious fast-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: Complicated

loonaglow's review against another edition

2.75

dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

2.75

it was so close to being a 3 but the last few chapters left me with more questions. however the descriptive writing was really well done and a great message for colonisation and family trauma

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jenny_0004's review against another edition

4.75

dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Yes

cursedepub's review against another edition

2.5

dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This book reads as confused and immature, and I don't say that just because it is written from a teenager's POV. I read a fair amount of YA as someone in my late 20s, and there are many books where a teenager protagonist is characterised as confused and immature, WITHIN a well-written, well-constructed story. This is unfortunately not one of them.

Above all else, this book fails as a horror novel. We get a lot of very typical haunted house/horror story scenes, as if written based on a checklist... and NONE of them feel weighty or instill dread or fear. There is no real sense of mystery about the haunted house either, as we learn everything valuable pretty early on - later reveals don't add much to the story. Uncertainty and the build and release of tension is essential to horror and the book really does not deliver on those counts.

Outside of the horror aspect, the book could have almost been a fair character study of Jade as a second-generation immigrant facing a lot of pressure and working through a lot of baggage, but that doesn't quite happen either. There are some seeds of good ideas for character conflict and theme that don't get the follow-through they need to come to fruition. To be honest, the book kind of lost me at the 70% mark.