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4.06 AVERAGE
4.06 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
lighthearted
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Holy cow I wasn’t expecting this to be as good as it was!! I also wasn’t expecting all the darker themes this book had too but dang did it pull punches!
The characters were so interesting and layered, I loved getting to know them and seeing them change because of the game!
I like to guess what comes next when someone crazy happens, and I’m always wrong and that didn’t change with this book haha! My jaw dropped at multiple points in the book!
Also I’m on team Grayson, though I hated him in the beginning, I fell in love with gentleness with Avery! ALSO IF I GOT TOLD THAT MY FEELINGS WERE JUST A GAME I’D CHOOSE THE OTHER BROTHER!!
The characters were so interesting and layered, I loved getting to know them and seeing them change because of the game!
I like to guess what comes next when someone crazy happens, and I’m always wrong and that didn’t change with this book haha! My jaw dropped at multiple points in the book!
Stars : 4.4/5
I loved this book. If you’re looking for something that’s quick and has tons of twists and turns this is the book for you. I love the characters and how some of them aren’t who they say they are!
I loved this book. If you’re looking for something that’s quick and has tons of twists and turns this is the book for you. I love the characters and how some of them aren’t who they say they are!
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
It was fine. Totally contrived conflict though- if people just communicated this all would have resolved in 20 pages.
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
adventurous
challenging
emotional
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
i don’t like to compare to separate stories against one another but with this one, i really couldn’t not compare it to succession and even more so knives out which follows an eerily similar thread to this book—though in reverse in a way.
knives out is one of my absolute favorite movies, so especially with that one, i couldn’t look at this and not draw all these connections between the two. knives out is a whodunnit, a mystery, but what i love about it is that it’s more than just that. it’s a story about the intricacies of class dynamics and racial dynamics. a story about the psychology between families and just individual people in general. whiteness in the 2010s political landscape. what it means to be a working class immigrant individual. i mean i could go on. you can shove that movie in a mystery genre, but what’s captivating about it is that it’s so much more than that.
the inheritance games has a lot of those features, minus the discussions of race, but to me, it doesn’t nearly capture that same level of complexity that knives out does. it’s all there, but everything feels so surface level. and just when we could go deeper, we stop. or things are over explained that don’t need to be. and i get it, this is YA, but just because it’s YA does not mean its readers can’t figure stuff out. it’s a mystery, let me breathe in all the questions, feel all the tension, the curiosity. the characters are smart, but let me be! it feels like. on that note, i wish the characters came alive more. the knives out characters feel lively, their own crazy bunch, this bunch feels so chiseled—almost written for a novel rather than human, if that makes sense.
so i will admit! it is a page turner and don’t be surprised if i continue the series! but its just.. the pieces are there kinda, but i wanna dig more. i want things to be more messy! i want more rawness! we readers, ya readers included, can handle it!
knives out is one of my absolute favorite movies, so especially with that one, i couldn’t look at this and not draw all these connections between the two. knives out is a whodunnit, a mystery, but what i love about it is that it’s more than just that. it’s a story about the intricacies of class dynamics and racial dynamics. a story about the psychology between families and just individual people in general. whiteness in the 2010s political landscape. what it means to be a working class immigrant individual. i mean i could go on. you can shove that movie in a mystery genre, but what’s captivating about it is that it’s so much more than that.
the inheritance games has a lot of those features, minus the discussions of race, but to me, it doesn’t nearly capture that same level of complexity that knives out does. it’s all there, but everything feels so surface level. and just when we could go deeper, we stop. or things are over explained that don’t need to be. and i get it, this is YA, but just because it’s YA does not mean its readers can’t figure stuff out. it’s a mystery, let me breathe in all the questions, feel all the tension, the curiosity. the characters are smart, but let me be! it feels like. on that note, i wish the characters came alive more. the knives out characters feel lively, their own crazy bunch, this bunch feels so chiseled—almost written for a novel rather than human, if that makes sense.
so i will admit! it is a page turner and don’t be surprised if i continue the series! but its just.. the pieces are there kinda, but i wanna dig more. i want things to be more messy! i want more rawness! we readers, ya readers included, can handle it!