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ethan416's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Abortion, Drug abuse, Grief, Blood, Body horror, and Drug use
ramblepatch's review against another edition
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Drug use, Gore, Toxic relationship, Death, Cannibalism, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Vomit, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Body horror, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Alcohol, Child death, Colonisation, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Infidelity, Medical content, Death of parent, and Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Car accident
triseke'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
3.0
Graphic: Addiction, Grief, Gore, Toxic friendship, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, and Body horror
Minor: Car accident, Child death, Infidelity, Infertility, and Murder
scrubsandbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Drug abuse, Death, Vomit, Gore, and Addiction
Moderate: Cannibalism, Toxic relationship, Body horror, and Abortion
stephanieanneauthor's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I enjoyed this novel, and although I was satisfied with the ending I also would have loved if it was even darker. Given the hopelessness that permeates the story, I wasn't expecting such a hopeful ending. While reading, I felt that the tone and style was similar to Kathe Koja's Cypher. I liked how gritty and dark this was.
Moderate: Drug abuse, Abortion, and Drug use
ivoryecchymosis's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Drug use, Addiction, and Drug abuse
rbradley135'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
2.0
Graphic: Body horror, Grief, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death, Cannibalism, Gore, and Vomit
bookishchaos's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Grief
Moderate: Child death, Toxic friendship, and Vomit
Minor: Blood
tdunks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Self harm, Drug abuse, Death, and Vomit
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Abortion
it feels very culty which could invoke feelings of anxietybookishraccoon's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Due to the 1st 1/3 of the book being extremely slow, I had to knock off a star unfortunately. It took a long time just to really get into the plot, and the author really drew out the teenage love drama (which I could’ve done without personally). There was a lot of ‘filler’ content that the story really didn’t need in that section. I’ll be honest too- I wasn’t a huge fan of the characters presented in the story either .
Most of them weren’t very likeable people (not sure if that was intentional to the story). The whole friend group just seemed extremely toxic for eachother, & I had to keep asking myself why are these people friends?
With that said, there was also a lot of great takeaways from this book! It confronts the struggles with grief, and addiction - with a neat supernatural twist. I loved this author’s energy, & storytelling abilities. Their writing style wraps you in, & you find yourself losing track of time.. 20 + pages later!
I absolutely loved the supernatural segments, every one of them being extremely graphic & unique. The imagery was actually chilling at times. There was some great twists that I wasn’t expecting, took me completely off guard! Lol
This book definitely exceeded my expectations, & I still thoroughly enjoyed this one despite what was wrong with it! :) Will be keeping this one afterall for my Horror library! Honestly relieved that this book got itself turned around!
Moderate: Body horror, Drug abuse, and Addiction