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dianaschmidty's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Racism, Child death, Death, Dementia, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Self harm
theworldof11's review against another edition
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Grief
Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, and Addiction
Minor: Self harm
floraforlora's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Moderate: Alcohol, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Racism, Toxic relationship, and Xenophobia
Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, and Body shaming
renellen_x's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Self harm
Minor: Animal death, Xenophobia, and Death
anasc007's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Emotional abuse and Xenophobia
Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Death, and Fire/Fire injury
newtleg's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Moderate: Animal death, Death, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Drug abuse, Medical content, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Xenophobia
inglebelle's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Death and Drug use
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, and Xenophobia
jonsnowsmanbun's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Xenophobia, Death, Grief, Racism, Animal death, and Child death
Moderate: Dementia and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Cancer
its_madi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
First off, none of the characters have any charm or personality at all. They are from a rich family and they are done with their family's materialistic ways. That’s it. That is the extent of their personalities. Plus all of their interactions are just so weird? They say things like
”I’m going to ask you about the sexual intercourse later,” I warn her.”
and
“I have to act like everything’s okay until I can find a troll. Then I’ll kill him to death and get my normal feet back.”
They also used the word “suboptimal” a lot, and it was played off as an inside joke, but it was never really explained why? I think the author was trying to write some quirky dialogue, and it might have worked in another novel, but here it just fell on its face because I was already annoyed with its characters.
Also, unless I’m missing something, aren’t Gat and Johnny step brothers? And Cadence and Johnny are cousins? So that would make Gat and Cadence related right?
😳. 🤮.
The plot is also really boring. The MC Cadence has amnesia, and she’s trying to figure out what happened in the summer that she was 15. But she does absolutely NOTHING to solve any of this. She even knows that something is up, because she remarks that people keep lying to her, but she doesn’t even try to investigate it? At all? All she does is walk around the island until she gets a memory, and it’s as boring as it sounds.
Now this is probably one of my least hated 1 star books, because I didn’t actively hate anything (except for the GatXCadence relationship). But that’s just the problem. I didn’t hate anything because there was nothing there at all. This was just an empty book. If a short read and a rich family’s drama and an unreliable narrator sounds great to you, by all means take a look. But it just wasn’t for me.
1/5
Minor: Racism and Xenophobia
mndy's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
i love the various metaphors throughout the story. the word choice was fitting to the mood and setting. a lot of the sentences really got to the point as well. very beautiful writing in terms of describing pain and grief.
Moderate: Animal death and Death
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Dementia, Drug use, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, and Xenophobia