Reviews

Anna O by Matthew Blake

aphelele's review

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.75

wildlyminiaturesandwich's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• 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

supermormongirl's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

Intriguing premise, strong beginning, almost DNF’d because it was so nonsensical, misogynistic, and wildly boring suddenly about 60% - 80% through to the end 💀💖💀💖💀

_annabanana_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

abbier0ad's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious tense 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? No

4.25

Wow, holy bloody cow. This kept me up half the past two nights reading. If you can’t tell I really loved this book. 

Oh Ben Ben Ben. I’m not saying anymore!

Won’t lie, I did guess patient x pretty early on but it still kept me on my toes.

Only knocking it down by 0.75 of a star because they was a lot of psychological stuff that either bored me a tad or just went over my little old head 

libraryofbookish's review against another edition

challenging informative mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Anna O had me hella intrigued with its premise. However, I think the book itself was a tad long & very heavily focused on psychology. I think if you enjoy psychology, you will love this. I did enjoy it but also just felt it was a tad too heavily focused there and I wanted it to pull back. It made it feel so long and I wanted it to get more to the point. It was a bit convoluted. I did like the end tho. There’s some good twists! I just wish it didn’t take so long to arrive there. 

1000_lives's review

3.5

Bit of a snooze fest that could have done with some serious editing. Rescued by its twists.

avid_read's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

lisahamer's review against another edition

4.0

Anna O - an intriguing look into sleep crime.
Anna has been asleep for years, in fact ever since her friends were found murdered and Anna was accused of killing them.
Dr Prince is given her case - wake her up so she can be tried for her crimes.
Can you be held accountable for a crime you never knew you had done, or was it a clever ploy to attempt to get away with murder?

ml_spiteri's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0