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harpoonholly's review
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Audiobook edition.
The actor read well and her voice alternations were mostly seamless, but very distinctive as she switched between characters.
The imagery was well done and I'm finding I enjoy Piper's work the more I read of hers. I especially appreciate the odd focus (by degree) of teeth. I can't explain why, but teeth are unsettling.
The characters were each likeable in their own ways, even the least likeable garnered some sympathy from me. Not enough to forgive, but enough to understand.
I could see listening to this again, but I wouldn't call it a horror, more of a noir urban fantasy. There was a lot of blood, some guts (you don't want to get stuffed with those gory details anyway), and certainly desperation, but the imagery wasn't what I would define as scary, not in the horror sense.
I like it, it ticks all my urban fantasy boxes. I recommend it.
The actor read well and her voice alternations were mostly seamless, but very distinctive as she switched between characters.
The imagery was well done and I'm finding I enjoy Piper's work the more I read of hers. I especially appreciate the odd focus (by degree) of teeth. I can't explain why, but teeth are unsettling.
The characters were each likeable in their own ways, even the least likeable garnered some sympathy from me. Not enough to forgive, but enough to understand.
I could see listening to this again, but I wouldn't call it a horror, more of a noir urban fantasy. There was a lot of blood, some guts (you don't want to get stuffed with those gory details anyway), and certainly desperation, but the imagery wasn't what I would define as scary, not in the horror sense.
I like it, it ticks all my urban fantasy boxes. I recommend it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Gore, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Child death, Body horror, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, and Death
Moderate: Grief, Bullying, Death of parent, Police brutality, and Gun violence
Minor: Animal death and Genocide
motaki's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- 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? It's complicated
4.5
I'd like to thank Hailey Piper for giving us this brilliant book and Jodie Harris for her great performance in narrating it.
Could other people stop bashing my poor Lilac? She isn't perfect but she is trying her best, and what do you care if she killed people? Aren't fictional women allowed to have hobbies too?
I really loved Arcadia and it pained me so much to see her so unmoored in the last chapters, she has suffered so much it's great go see her getting a little HEA.
I wanted to strangle Alex and Cecil most of the time, they represent the kind of people I despise, always ready to blame others for their awful behaviour. It is never their fault, they are just following orders or doing things for a greater purpose. Yeah, right..
Quoting Lilac "You can't own what you do."
And that's a massive toxic trait I can't excuse.
The world building was so good and immersive that I'd like to know more about glories and gods and how everything came to be.
I really loved Arcadia and it pained me so much to see her so unmoored in the last chapters, she has suffered so much it's great go see her getting a little HEA.
I wanted to strangle Alex and Cecil most of the time, they represent the kind of people I despise, always ready to blame others for their awful behaviour. It is never their fault, they are just following orders or doing things for a greater purpose. Yeah, right..
Quoting Lilac "You can't own what you do."
And that's a massive toxic trait I can't excuse.
The world building was so good and immersive that I'd like to know more about glories and gods and how everything came to be.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Grief, Alcoholism, Blood, Gun violence, Murder, Child death, and Violence
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