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minimicropup's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Main POVs: 👌
-a parent with a 12 and 13 year old who is kind but distracted and exhausted, dealing with the hospitalization of their spouse who has paranoid schizophrenia
-a parent with one preteen and two teens who is well-meaning in homeschooling and insulating their family from the world, but results in them letting their guard down and missing glaring red flags. They are lenient with the hopes of their children growing up to be unashamedly their true selves…but they have never considered if those true selves may be rotten ones
-a 12 year old younger sibling who is observant, intuitive, and unfailingly loyal to their family but suspicious of strangers
Reading Journey: 👌
Riding through the neighbourhood in a golf cart on a crisp, relaxing summer day.
Show’n’tell: 👌 Perfect show - I wasn’t just in the characters heads I briefly became them. Includes a little map of the park and houses.
Great match if you like:
-neighbourhood mysteries
-dark cozy mystery
-coming-of-age drama
-nostalgic summer energy
-people giving off creepy vibes behind closed doors
-teens behaving badly
Vibes: 🙂😲ðŸ¤
Format: Kindle Unlimited
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Medical content
Minor: Drug use, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Forced institutionalization, and Alcoholism
Medical content is related to diabetes and paranoid schizophrenia. Adult/minor relationships are inferred and suspectedhaleybre's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Alcohol
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, and Infidelity
a_alves00's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Drug use, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Murder, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, and Sexual content
teaofleaves's review against another edition
2.0
Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, and Child death
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, and Sexual assault
Minor: Infidelity, Sexual content, and Pedophilia
gemin1reader's review against another edition
2.75
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Sexual content, Drug abuse, and Alcohol
Minor: Infidelity and Sexual assault
pippamillerxoxo_'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? No
4.0
Graphic: Mental illness, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, and Suicide
hkburke2'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
2.75
Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Mental illness
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Sexism, and Adult/minor relationship
Minor: Murder, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Vomit, Rape, Drug use, and Suicide
kenmorxo's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Cursing, Violence, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Blood and Bullying
Minor: Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, and Sexual content
dalmavatai's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
I do wish the pacing had been done a bit differently, there was a LOT of setup, much of which was needed, but maybe it could've been shortened just a tad bit so that we could've gotten more at the end. I liked the resolution though, and especially enjoyed the way that we kept going back and forth between the past and the present towards the end which created a really frantic atmosphere where you just wanted to get to the truth.
It was a bit slow paced, especially in the first half, which is why I didn't enjoy it as much as I could've but honestly this book made me really excited to get to more of Lisa Jewell's backlist!
Graphic: Child death
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, and Sexual assault
foldingthepage_kayleigh's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, and Adult/minor relationship