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Sadie by Courtney Summers

44 reviews

reedandright's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Rape, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Child death, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Grief, Toxic friendship, Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Alcohol

Minor: Ableism and Cursing

flux_6174's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.75

A driven, determined, practical, mysterious and loving sister set to avenge her sister and seek revenge for herself. What else do you need?

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Violence, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Death, Sexual assault, Drug use, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Murder, Drug abuse, and Rape

baraya's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Violence, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, Murder, Physical abuse, Drug use, Sexual harassment, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, and Sexual assault

daisyfont's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Sexual violence, Child death, Child abuse, Rape, Death, Drug abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Car accident

sarah_shelf's review against another edition

dark emotional sad

4.0

I’m not quite sure how to begin with this book. It’s powerful and heavy and so vastly different from what I thought it was going to be. And I know this is going to sit with me for a long time.

This book is described like a mystery, but it’s really not about that at all. At least not in the way I think of traditional mysteries. The narrative is told from the perspective of Sadie searching for her little sister Mattie’s killer and from Wes McCray a podcast journalist who has picked up Sadie’s story after she has gone missing. The general whodunit and why that I was expecting isn’t really a part of it. Sadie knows what happened (even if it takes a while for her to explain that to us) and Wes’ investigation is largely parallel and two steps behind Sadie’s journey. Rather, the focus is on the sisters’ relationship: how much Sadie loves Mattie as well as the things she is willing to do for that love because no one else will. 

I was not prepared for the monster Keith/Darren/Jack was. (Seriously check the content warnings. I was caught off guard and even more unsettled because of it). So much of Sadie’s journey involves the effects and reactions to his abuse, which is never fully described on the page. Instead we get disturbing flashback scenes of creepy behavior, the emotional turmoil of the evidence he and Silas kept, as well as testimonies from a host of characters who thought they were great guys. All of that makes this so much more real because “girls go missing all the time” but rarely are we forced into the true aftermath of these stories.

There was no other way to end this book. Apparently the ending is contentious, and I get that because usually such an open-ending feels unfinished and unsatisfying, but it would have hurt the story to do things differently.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Death, and Child death

Minor: Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Alcohol, Murder, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

bookish_mind's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Addiction, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

chloenk_1011's review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Blood, Sexual harassment, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual violence, Violence, Abandonment, Addiction, Child abuse, Drug use, Grief, Physical abuse, and Rape

nat_kiverse's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, Child death, Cursing, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Addiction, Alcohol, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Bullying, Cancer, Car accident, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Sexual violence, Stalking, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

miaaa_lenaaa's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I miss sadie :(

‘I don't expect it to bring her back. It won't bring her back. It's not about finding peace. There will never be peace.BI'm not under any illusion about how little of me will be left after I do this one thing.’

‘A world at the end of the world.’

‘I don’t want him to do what he's doing, talking to me like I'm some wild thing, like I can be calmed down with the gentleness he's dressed his voice in.’

‘"It'll h-heal f-fine."It'll heal ugly.” Most things do’

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Child death, Physical abuse, Rape, Violence, Sexual harassment, Pedophilia, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Grief

anielabooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This book had been in my TBR for probably over a year before I decided to pick it up. I’d heard the audiobook was a good format to read it because of the podcast element. After listening to it, I wholeheartedly agree. Not only is the podcast element to the story heightened by the format, but Sadie’s stutter is portrayed amazingly by the voice actress. I decided to finally pick it up because it was available to borrow on Libby; I’m so glad I did. I’d definitely recommend this book to true-crime followers, especially those who listen to podcasts. The only reason I did not give this book 5 stars was because the beginning was a little confusing for me. That might just have been me getting used to reading audiobooks though; don’t let it discourage you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Child death, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Pedophilia, and Blood

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Rape, Murder, Abandonment, Drug use, and Addiction

Minor: Alcohol, Cancer, Bullying, Suicide, Stalking, Pregnancy, Grief, Death of parent, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Cursing, Violence, Toxic relationship, Death, Car accident, and Domestic abuse