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savreads28's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Car accident, Murder, Outing, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
asophia1014's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Suicide, and Outing
Moderate: Mental illness and Injury/Injury detail
vesperity's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Homophobia, Suicide, and Outing
robinie142's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Death, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Outing
Minor: Drug use and Mass/school shootings
wild_mustang's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
3.25
Pretty much just teen drama - sex, drugs, alcohol and depression. Oh, and trying to stay out of jail - but to be honest there wasn’t heaps of focus on the murder mystery. At least there wasn’t until the last 100 pages or so.
Personally, I didn’t really care for the romance sub-plots either.
The writing was also in a more juvenile voice than what I normally read, which makes sense because it’s first person perspectives from teenagers, but it took me a little while to get used to. Additionally, many of the plots were very trope heavy and painfully stereotypical at times
However, if was a very easy read and only took like 7hrs so it gets an average 3 star rating. The extra quarter of a star is an appreciation of some of the authors writing choices and the execution of perspective narrations to reveal relevant things in the intended literary light and at the right narrative time.
I recently studied Reader-Response Theory and I think, in this light, McManus did a very good job at writing for the implied reader (so the rating is bumped up), however, I really don’t think that I am the implied or intended reader (so it’s still a fairly average rating).
To take a strategic leaf from Simon’s tumblr…
JT recommended this to me and I’m not mad I read it but I certainly don’t care to continue the series.
Graphic: Death, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Outing
Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Homophobia, and Violence
Minor: Addiction, Cancer, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Vomit, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
synkdive'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
Graphic: Bullying, Death, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Vomit, and Outing
Minor: Cursing
bookedbymadeline's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Outing
Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicide, and Mass/school shootings
Minor: Self harm, Vomit, Car accident, and Suicide attempt
dramagirl2003'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? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Murder, and Outing
Minor: Gun violence, Homophobia, Sexual content, Blood, Mass/school shootings, and Suicide attempt
prairieraven'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? Yes
3.0
Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Outing, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
ansuya'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
4.0
Graphic: Outing
Moderate: Cancer and Gun violence