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Лисья нора by Nora Sakavic

99 reviews

elliott_the_clementine's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

Completely unhinged but so self-aware that it’s impossible not to love. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Violence, Drug use, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, and Drug abuse

whoknowss's review against another edition

dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.5

A lot of characters are introduced at once, most without much description , so it was a little hard to keep track of who was who in the beginning. I had to look at the wiki page pictures/descriptions. Some of the writing was pretty cheesy but an enjoyable read. The whole Columbia thing was fucked up though.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Alcohol, Drug use, Homophobia, and Sexual harassment

lennie_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Did i understand Exy? No
Did i like the characters? I honestly don't know
Could i put it down? Also No

Something about this book dug its murderous lil fingers into my brain. 

Think Haikyuu meets the Yakuza. 

And for the love of god check the trigger warnings before reading this book because wow. 

There are a lot of slurs used in the book, a lot of terrible things (past and present) that happen, a confusing made up sport and some very damaged and toxic characters but idk, something about it just makes me want to delve deeper into the story and characters. 

I'm genuinely not sure of my rating for this and there were parts that were very uncomfortable for me to read.

CW: murder, physical abuse, child abuse, death, overdose, drug use, drug abuse, spiking, rape joke, use of the r slur and the f slur, death of a parent, burning a corpse, homophobia, violence, addiction, blood, injury, toxic relationship, mental illness, 
state mandated drug use (this one is absolutely bizarre). 
And probably more tbh 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Death of parent, Violence, Alcohol, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Slavery and Sexual harassment

Minor: Biphobia, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Ableism

joseph_al's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Alcoholism, Blood, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Alcohol, Physical abuse, Addiction, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Death, Drug abuse, and Drug use

hannahalbregts's review against another edition

3.5

trash. absolutely loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Sexual harassment, and Violence

Moderate: Sexism and Homophobia

Minor: Vomit

riccii's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.5

It's been a while since I read these books. The writing is not amazing and it has a lot of faults. AND YET I devoured this within about 24 hours. I do appreciate the fact that this book mostly sets up the next two books. I like these early iterations of the characters less, but also that is the point, to see how they develop over the series. Especially

Andrew on his meds

is just much less appealing to me as a character, compared to later in the series. 

This does mean that I'm looking forward to the next book(s)! 

I do have to say, that the writing definitely already picks up towards the end of the book, from

the showdown at the tv show

on you already get a good idea of what the next two books are going to look like, as far as character dynamics go.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Acephobia/Arophobia, Addiction, Drug use, Alcohol, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Child abuse, Death, Sexual assault, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

emmilus's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I know many people are not a fan of this book but it's so good like the story is good And well written but you must read the tw before reading its about not everyone can handle.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Gaslighting, Violence, Vomit, Blood, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Sexual harassment

claire_b322's review against another edition

Didn’t vibe with the story or the characters 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, and Addiction

_persephone's review against another edition

dark funny fast-paced

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

4.25

neil shit-talking riko

at the end is half the reason i'll be reading the next book. get his ass!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Alcohol, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Drug use

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Suicide

blubonby's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

1.5

This is a terrible book. It has major ableism issues and is littered with homophobia and a sprinkle of racism. The mental health talk and rep are genuinely awful, theres an entire plot point about one of the characters being on court mandated medication, the whole medication thing genuinely makes no sense to me, and he is completely demonised the entirety of this book; and from what I can remember the rest of the series as well. There's a line question whether his violent reaction to something someone's says is his "psychosis or medication?", for the record he literally does not experience psychosis at all.  There's another line where the MC tells the psychiatrist that she's "obsessive-compulsive" because her office if clean and very organised, and responds "guilty as charged" she's literally a psychiatrist, as a character she should not be perputrating these stereotypes of OCD. Another where the MC is wondering what could be "wrong" with one of his team members from "split personalities to clinical insanity." just gross. 

One of the characters, a Mexican man who is the only openly guy character and as far as I can remember the only POC, is shown to sexually harass other characters, at one point he kisses a character, who has been drugged, without their consent, and there's a sort of joke between other characters about how he's "scheming to rape" the MC, and it's just brushed off. 

Literally the only reason I gave it 1.5 instead of 1 is because for some reason, that I truley can't pinpoint, I've come back to this series 3 times, even though it gets worse every time I read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Drug use, Ableism, Violence, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Addiction, Homophobia, Murder, and Death of parent