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Small Favors by Erin A. Craig

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priya_amrev's review against another edition

3.0

Wow. The slow suspense. The creeping dread. I think this would make an amazing horror movie. Which of course I would never watch because I hate horror movies. But ykwim.

livia_maria's review against another edition

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Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

zayele's review against another edition

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4.0

I really enjoyed this book overall! The setting and unorthodox finale were very well done, and the overall motif of a sleepy town with monsters in the wilderness resonates with me strongly. I also liked how the romantic subplot existed, but didn’t suffocate the overall narrative like what often happens in fantasy. As others have said, there’s a “spooky” vibe here and it’s really done well overall.

There were a couple of problems, though. One big one is that a line in the description (“They point to a tribe of devilish and mystical creatures who promise to fulfill the residents' deepest desires, however grand and impossible, for just a small favor”) is actually a large spoiler and makes a lot of threads in the plot easy to guess - it’s also not explored much until over halfway through the book, so I can’t understand why it had to be included as a point in the overview. Another issue (although more personal to me) is that a lot of animals are killed throughout the book; I really hate this and while this is more of a TW, I do feel like it was unnecessary overall.

4 stars!

shadeslayer327's review against another edition

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5.0

Small Favors has small town, creepy, monster in the woods vibes and I loved every second of it. I kept racing through the pages (well, audiobook) to figure out what in the world was going on. I will say it’s borderline criminal that this book doesn’t have an epilogue—I looked down at the progress bar and said “there’s no way there’s only eight minutes left”. But there were, in fact, only eight minutes left. So I am totally down for a delayed epilogue or, you know, a companion novel or novella in the future

dana_yamaguchi's review against another edition

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3.0

“You’ll make mistakes—we all do—but you care enough to keep fighting.
That’s the truly important part.
You care too much to quit.”
-Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

amimafotak's review against another edition

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5.0

5/5

Boží, boží, boží, boží, boží <3

Miluju to. Nová autorčina kniha mi neuvěřitelně sedla všemi aspekty. Chápu, že asi není pro každého, ale i tak ji budu doporučovat, kde to jen půjde!

Jen se nenechte zmást tou roztomilou žluťoučkou obálkou - obsahově je to docela drsňárna :D

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