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wrensreadingroom's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Animal death, Body horror, Blood, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Violence
jazminnnnnnn's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Vomit
esterix's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Graphic: Suicide, Violence, Death, and Death of parent
Moderate: Gaslighting
Minor: Suicidal thoughts
folded_between_pages_of_books's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
3.25
Graphic: Cursing, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Medical content, Murder, Self harm, Suicide, Vomit, Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Abandonment, and Child death
Extra trigger warning: chemical gassinglindseygetsliterary's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Grief, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Gore, Blood, Medical trauma, Death, Vomit, Murder, and Medical content
Moderate: Confinement, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts
its_nix'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: Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Medical content, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, and Vomit
Moderate: Abandonment
klara42's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Medical trauma, Body horror, and Death
Moderate: Medical content and Suicidal thoughts
laurav's review
4.0
Moderate: Murder, Suicide attempt, Body horror, Violence, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Gun violence
writingcaia's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
On an island there’s Raxter, a girls boarding school, and there’s also the Tox, a disease culling lives or changing the surviving few strange with mutations, the same happening with the fauna and flora of the island for the last eighteen months they think. In Raxter there’re three friends who along with the others surviving girls and female teachers are quarantined and confined to the school grounds unable to explore the rest of the island, only the boat crew allowed to go out to pick up the supplies sent by the navy base close by.
An opening to the boat crew opens early on in the story and one of the friends, Reese, really wants to get picked out, since she is a native of the island and knows the place, and so is her father who unfortunately disappeared soon after the Tox hit and who she wants to see if he’s still out there, but luck has it it will be one of her friends that gets the chance, Hetty, the one eyed girl, the lead of this tale. However, what she’ll find out there will be more puzzling and disheartening than she could ever have guessed.
Still, they keep on hoping and waiting for a cure, Hetty and Byatt, her beautiful mysterious sister from another mister bff, and even the resigned tough Reese, who stands always slightly apart from the duo. Until the day Byatt goes missing after the usually final flare of the disease comes to her body. Desperate Hetty will do anything to have her friend back and she is able to convince Reese too, easier than she had thought. After all are they friends too, right?
This is a book about fighting to survive, fighting to fit in, fighting to be, but will they make it? Can they overcome their disease, can they survive it, can they ever understand what is happening to them?
This is not an easy story, but I truly liked the diverse cast, albeit 99% female (girl power) and their very different personalities and struggles, and as we follow the three friends we find that not everything is as it seems and that they’re not black or white. Also, the final explanation for it all is so good, but this is not your typical book as I’ve said before, it is YA but really gory and gritty, with a weird plot and setting.
I liked it but it was also maybe a bit too weird for me, and there were things I’d have like to have been dug deeper, still kudos for the originality of plot and the immersive and emotional writing.
Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Confinement, Death of parent, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Death, and Murder
Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Gun violence
Starvation, Stitching, Near death experiencer__a's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, and Grief
Moderate: Bullying, Torture, Eating disorder, Terminal illness, and Murder