Reviews with content warning for Suicidal thoughts - Rouge

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Rouge by Mona Awad

4 reviews

_scvvter's review

dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-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

In these early stages of my reading journey, I always knew I wanted to read Awad's work. Something about her stood out to me. And when I saw I could rent her newest novel from my library, I immediately jumped at the chance.

Then I hate to wait more than 6 months for it to get to me because over 100 people in my city were ahead of me. When I finally got this, I was thinking "this better have been worth the wait.

And MY GOD WAS IT. I absolutely love this book. Awad was able to easily get me to sympathise with every character, even the ones with smaller roles. Her writing shoved me right into the story and had me waiting to get back to it any chance I could get. It was beautiful, heart-wrenching, and suspenseful.

The one thing I can say about this that isn't positive is that this doesn't feel like a horror novel at all.

literally the only part I found scary was toward the end and that was like 1% of the novel.

I would say if you're looking for a real horror story, I wouldn't pick this up.

In the end, what I great start to my reading of 2024 and it makes me have high hopes for all of Awad's other novels!

Final Score: 10/10

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