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The only issue is the writing style. It’s exactly the same as in “we were liars” but it has a different narrator. I believe that when you write from the first person perspective the writing style is no longer yours as the author but theirs as the character therefore having the same styles/techniques is just lazy, boring and cheap thing to do that.
Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Alcohol
Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Child death, Murder
Moderate: Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Child death, Death, Rape, Murder
Moderate: Addiction, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Murder
Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Infidelity, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt
Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Grief, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Addiction, Murder
Moderate: Child death, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Alcohol
Minor: Body shaming, Cursing, Homophobia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol
Minor: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Outing
To me a lot of this book felt like filler, ESPECIALLY the entire plot with Rosemary, the dead little sister. OMG, I swear I reread the same scene with Rosemary the ghost 100 times. It goes like this:
Carrie: “Rosemary, why and how are you haunting me?”
Rosemary: “I don’t know.”
Carrie: “Okay.”
Rosemary: “Want to make bracelets and snuggle?”
Carrie: “I’d rather be hanging out with my boyfriend rather than my dead little sister, but I feel guilty, so sure.”
Imagine this, but painfully dragged over two pages and on about ten different occasions. UUGGHHH!
And why is nobody mentioning that you never even learn why Carrie is seeing ghosts! There is no explanation. None! I suffered through so many Rosemary scenes and I don’t have a reason as to why. That really bothered me.
Moving on, the characters were all quite one-dimensional and uninteresting. Carrie is the addict. Penny is the princess. Bess is the little sister. Pfeff is the player. You’ll learn nothing else about the characters other than what I just told you.
I did like some of the mini plot twists but the main plot twist (Carrie murdering Pfeff) was so predictable. Especially because this book follows the exact same formula as the Sequel.
I could go on and on but I’ll stop here. This book was a lazy version of We Were Liars. I won’t be recommending it to anyone.
Graphic: Addiction, Murder
Moderate: Child death, Death, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Homophobia, Sexual content