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smreads24's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Murder
Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, and Mental illness
frogglin's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
4.0
Meanwhile, a small community of happy families has a house available for sale should someone meet the high requirements of the HOA to purchase it. Nora is drawn in not just by the promise of a perfect suburban life in a beautiful home, but by a recent death in the community. As a lawyer, she finds herself promising to uncover the truth of what happened to Richard, and how he could have died in the housefire that left his wife grieving and living in a pool house.
The high powered community includes women working in medicine, psychology, real estate, charity - each one of them married to a doting and adoring husband and each husband more than taking on his fair share of the house hold chores and mental load.
It sounds like a dream, but there's a deep river of discomfort running through this novel.
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Pregnancy
Moderate: Death and Blood
Minor: Domestic abuse
martieliz's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Death, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Domestic abuse
sarah984's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Forced institutionalization
Moderate: Death, Alcohol, Blood, Misogyny, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Pregnancy
Minor: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Confinement, Death of parent, Fatphobia, and Sexual content
Brainwashing/mind control contentbinreads's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Get Out vibes for SUUUURE. The whole time I was thinking NORA GIRL COME ON YOU ARE SMART GET OUUUUUT OF THIS
the book didn’t really pick up until halfway through and i thought we could’ve gotten to the resolution a bit sooner so we could see the aftermath.
The last line HAUNTED ME.
I also feel like it dragged on the “accident” situation that happened to Liv. I don’t believe it really added anything to the narrative.
It was crazy to slowly uncover what was happening as a reader. When they were at therapy, and Cornelia kept clicking her pen: Click, Click, Click i was immediately like Didn’t Richard claim he was hearing clicking??? Are they brainwashing them?? AND I WAS RIGHT
Graphic: Death, Gaslighting, Murder, Trafficking, Sexism, and Torture
Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Blood and Body horror
megj23's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Pregnancy and Sexism
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Misogyny
Minor: Death of parent and Domestic abuse
lannies's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Pregnancy, and Death
Minor: Physical abuse
alisonp's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Minor: Pregnancy
babayagaofficial's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Kind of painfully white and hetero and upper-middle-class, but enjoyable in spite of it.
The few women of color felt really tokenistic to me — one Black, one East Asian, one South Asian, check, check, check! Does that have any effect on their lives or personalities at all? Nope!
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, and Murder
Moderate: Blood, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Sexism
Minor: Alcohol, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Gaslighting