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I love the way that E. Lockhart writes. 🤩 Specifically how she describes characters. 🥰 If I could pick one author to describe me, I’d pick her. 🙃 I also really like the way that her characters aren’t perfect, and the way the characters sometimes call out the other characters. 😅
Despite the fact that I’ve read this book three times now,
The only specific thing that I don’t like about this book is how
But overall, I really like this book and it’s made me really excited for summer! ☀️ (Despite the fact that it’s February. 🥶)
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual content, Blood, Medical content, Alcohol, Classism
Minor: Cursing, Slavery
Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Alcohol
Minor: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment
Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Medical trauma, Murder, Abandonment
Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Classism
Graphic: Drug use, Alcohol
Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Murder
Minor: Sexual assault
Graphic: Drug abuse
Moderate: Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content
Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Grief, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Grief, Murder, Alcohol
Moderate: Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Classism
Minor: Biphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual content, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia
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
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use
Minor: Cursing, Sexual assault, Sexual content