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Girl A: Roman

Abigail Dean

3.51 AVERAGE

bookedby_raye's review against another edition

2.0

Dnf - the plot seemed good but the intro of the story instantly bored me and it didn't make me read on further

pikalexi's review against another edition

1.0

Got half way through and did not finish. The characters were all too unlikeable and the plot was slow and dragging. Lacked depth and emotion.

a_hutchinson19's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

This wasn't as good as I was hoping. It became complicated with so many viewpoints but overall I enjoyed the writing style

beckicw's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

disasterchick's review against another edition

2.0

I think the premise for this book is fantastic, however, the execution is poor. We know from the beginning that Lex was abused and the girl that escaped the House of Horrors. As you read you learn how it happens, and what happens to the survivors. The narrator is unreliable, and even when you find out how unreliable she is the reader is still exposed to her fantasy or lies determining how you want to look at it. While I enjoy stories that jump timelines this jumped around like popcorn in an air popper. I also don't understand the urge to create the House of Horrors into a community center. First, the community is wanting to forget what happened. Second, the house wasn't in great shape when they lived there and being vacant for 15 years unless there are architecture details worth maintaining this house really should be bulldozed, and the survivors move on with their lives. The editor really needed to do some trimming on this book as there are characters that really don't have a role in the story, but manage to take up a lot of pages. In the end i really think the author wants to take us to the setting of Wuthering Heights which is another love/hate book.

How did I find this book? It was Malala's September 2021 selection for her Fearless book club hosted through Literati.