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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-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
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book was fine, it could have been better. I had the plot figured out immediately and even though the author tries to trick you it still ended up exactly where I thought it would. The main character was not my favorite, she is a self-medicated and unreliable narrator. Even though I had figured out the plot, I still wanted to keep reading and get to the end and see if I was right.
dark
mysterious
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
Great mystery. Stacey did a phenomenal job of making you feel like you knew where the plot was going, or speculating a few different avenues, but she completely caught me off guard with that ending!
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
This was my second book I read by Stacy Willingham, the first being All The Dangerous Things. I truly wish discovered this one before All The Dangerous Things, as the writing and the story was so much better than her second book. However, there were so many similarities in these two books that it felt like her second book was just re-writing this one with different characters.
That being said, this was a far better storyline in comparison to All The Dangerous Things. Loved this read!
That being said, this was a far better storyline in comparison to All The Dangerous Things. Loved this read!
I feel bad saying it but this book was just kind of boring. I’m looking to get more into thrillers and crime after enjoying those elements in other book genres that I read more frequently. However, this was not a good place to start. The concept was certainly interesting but I should have expected that it would lead to a tumblr-fied angsty main character who communicates almost entirely in cringe, emo dialogue. Her internal thoughts are not much better. This meant that I felt completely unengaged with the stakes relating to this character. Additionally, I found the main plot twist predictable, having suspected it right from the start. I will say that there is a major plot twist at the end which is definitely fun but the book spends so long leaning into a red herring that it feels like a fore gone conclusion for 300 pages. This means the narrative is fun to look back on once you finish the plot twist but is not fun to read. The book would be better served if twists existed throughout the plot but they just don’t. Finally, this book is written by a woman but all of the (few and far between) female characters suffer from ‘written by man syndrome’. I’m sick of constantly having to read about teenage girls boobs and how sexually promiscuous they are. Cut it out.