16.1k reviews for:

Gallant

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3.77 AVERAGE

endonovan's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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In the acknowledgements she says that this book took a long time to write and she didn’t know what would be behind the wall. You can kind of feel that with the ending, every page of the book is so interesting and VES is always amazing at painting worlds, but the ending just felt meh. Death as a character was as spooky and haunting as it should be and the ghouls are so cool instead of just full ghosts, but the ending didn’t do the rest of the great book justice. 

kiorased's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

kazii_'s review against another edition

4.0

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O dost ponuřejší než autorčiny ostatní knihy, ale o to poetičtější. Určitě mi bude ještě dlouho ležet v hlavě.

callmenessa's review against another edition

4.0

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Gallant es de esos libros que terminas y no sabes ni como sentirte. Fue una experiencia rara pero agradable, aunque si hubiera tenido un inicio menos tedioso no me quejo.

froosh's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

endairiss's review against another edition

3.0

dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

pgarcia99's review

3.75

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-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

cherrycyanide13's review against another edition

4.0

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3.5

mandypandyrox's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

phedre's review against another edition

3.0

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: No

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So I enjoyed this book until the end.  Mainly that Matthew died.  And that it didn't need to happen.  There was no reason Olivia had to go beyond the wall.  Death wasn't getting out.  There was no danger.  There was no one to save.  If there had been, then I could see Matthew dying as a sacrifice and I would have been "ok" with it.  But this whole thing could have been avoided and everyone would be alive.  If only they told her what was going on, what was behind the wall and what was at stake, everyone would be alive.  The FMC being mute, and the three people in the house deliberately not looking at her so they didn't need to talk to her, was awful.  I don't think any of them were great people.

The plus is that I really enjoyed the story overall.  It was gothic, eerie, there were ghouls.  I loved the diary piece and how that added to the story.  I listened to this while reading the book, and the narration was done really well.  There were illustrations in the book, so I suggest a tandem read.