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Sign Here by Claudia Lux

38 reviews

highlordmads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I don’t know what I thought this book would be, but it wasn’t it. It made me laugh and it made me think. This book is heavy and at a different time in my life I probably couldn’t have safely read it, but this week I could and I’m so happy I did. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Self harm, Blood, Vomit, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Eating disorder, Pedophilia, Torture, Blood, Grief, and Pregnancy

booksnart2023's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture and Grief

Minor: Death, Violence, and Pregnancy

mle11's review

dark funny tense

2.75

a lot of interesting pieces but unfortunately didn't put them together in any kind of meaningful way. what was that ending...?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Violence, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

charlesalexander's review

emotional funny medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Self harm, Transphobia, Violence, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

reedcodes's review

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Self harm, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cursing, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, and Gaslighting

jules6469's review

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

This book is two intertwined narratives told back and forth throughout, before they eventually come together. For a supernatural/horror/thriller/dark comedy, the writing and exploration of humanity in the characters is beautiful. This story asks us what it means to be a good person vs. a bad person and how to know what kind of person we want to be. Other themes explored include guilt, grief, and love. This was the best of both worlds for me as I enjoy a thriller grounded in reality just as much as a dark comedy set in Hell. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Violence, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Child abuse, and Abortion

esme_may's review

dark funny mysterious medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Cancer, Terminal illness, Medical content, Car accident, Abortion, and War

hippie_raccoon's review

dark emotional medium-paced

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

2.0

Man. What a letdown of a book. Initially I was drawn into the Hell/Earth storylines. But the Earth storyline just does a lot of word-dump explanation of events in the last 25% of the book. And the Hell storyline.... It felt like it could have been entirely removed from the book and it wouldn't have changed anything about what was going on with the Harrison's. 
All in all I feel like this was an interesting concept with potential, but wasn't executed in any impressive manner.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Self harm, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Pregnancy

micaelamariem's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

This book would’ve been better as a thriller without any of the paranormal/hell/demon stuff. It sounded cool but those were the parts that bored me. Reading about the family on earth was interesting, but overall could’ve been done better.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Infidelity, Sexism, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

elizbiz's review

dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

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

3.75

With the satirical humor of The Good Place and the red herrings of a murder mystery, Claudia Lux's debut weaves together two stories--one in Hell and one on Earth--for a family's intergenerational search for lost humanity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Self harm, Trafficking, Murder, and Pregnancy