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dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Slow at the beginning but that’s is okay because your truly getting to know the characters. The second part does speed up but things are a bit repetitive.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Rape, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Kidnapping, Murder
Moderate: Death, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Grief
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
this was my second mystery type of book and i did enjoy it but it didn't meet the top standards for me. the whole book was good but the ending was a real big disappointment for me. i was expecting something more and bigger but the plot twist made me think the author didn't really know how to finish the book and decided to do it the way they did. but other than the ending, it was overall good.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Kidnapping
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Minor: Child abuse, Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Kidnapping, Murder, Toxic friendship
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Just awful. I was expecting this to be a thriller about the murder game, but the game doesn't even start until just before the halfway mark, and it gets derailed so quickly that nothing is really even done with it. The description sounds exciting but everything is so slow-moving, with a bunch of bickering and deliberating before anyone does anything.
The characters are all very boring and stereotypical (almost offensively so with the book’s one Asian character, a quietly inscrutable Korean heiress who is obsessed with herbalism and exclusively eats kimchee). The culprit is glaringly obvious from almost the beginning because they are given these constant cartoonishly villainous descriptions. There is very little indication that this is a book in a series, so the cop’s emotional drama that takes up a huge amount of mid-book real estate and brings the plot to a crushing halt comes out of left field. One character narrates in first person and all other pov characters are third person for no discernible reason. The first-person character makes completely unbelievable decisions.
There are like four thousand plot twists and they're all stupid and boring. I hated this book.
The characters are all very boring and stereotypical (almost offensively so with the book’s one Asian character, a quietly inscrutable Korean heiress who is obsessed with herbalism and exclusively eats kimchee). The culprit is glaringly obvious from almost the beginning because they are given these constant cartoonishly villainous descriptions. There is very little indication that this is a book in a series, so the cop’s emotional drama that takes up a huge amount of mid-book real estate and brings the plot to a crushing halt comes out of left field. One character narrates in first person and all other pov characters are third person for no discernible reason. The first-person character makes completely unbelievable decisions.
There are like four thousand plot twists and they're all stupid and boring. I hated this book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Trafficking, Kidnapping
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Murder
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Infidelity
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The Invitation is a genre-bending book: a detective story that reads like a domestic thriller.
I would recommend The Invitation to readers who enjoy authors like Lucy Foley (The Hunting Party, The Guest List) and Ruth Ware (One by One, The Woman in Cabin 10, In a Dark, Dark Wood).
I would recommend The Invitation to readers who enjoy authors like Lucy Foley (The Hunting Party, The Guest List) and Ruth Ware (One by One, The Woman in Cabin 10, In a Dark, Dark Wood).
Content Warnings
Moderate: Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Kidnapping