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danidamico's review
dark
mysterious
tense
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
3.5
Hasta ahora Beast es la novela que menos me gustó de la serie de Six Stories. Esta cuarta entrega me resultó más repetitiva que las anteriores y bastante predecible en ciertos aspectos, no tiene una conclusión muy satisfactoria que digamos después de casi 300 páginas. Sin embargo, los libros de Matt Wesolowski siempre me entretienen y me mantienen enganchada, me encanta como construye la atmósfera de los distintos ambientes, como en este caso hace con el pueblo de Ergarth y la Torre de Tankerville. Su escritura siempre logra ser efectiva, construye a la perfección los escenarios y el efecto de oralidad de los distintos entrevistados. En fin, pronto seguiré con la quinta entrega de la serie.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Murder
madarauchiha's review
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
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What a fucking let down. I really liked the formatting of it being a podcast transcript with interviews. I like odd and mixed ways to convey a story, like in Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall. I appreciate the use of italics to emphasize who is speaking, whether a conversation is happening, and so on. It broke up the monotonous feeling of an endless skype chat transcript. They felt natural and decently paced.
The lack of conclusion to any supernatural plot was disappointing. Why include that? I felt it could have been tied into what happened with the dead female character well enough, but that's just me. The mention of social media is pretty accurate, at the time of publishing and my reading of it. Most inclusions of social media are fumbled misunderstood uses of the big scary internet.
If you read this book, skip that last chapter, the final 'youtube video transcript' one. It made me feel like I wasted the 1 and a half hour spent reading this book. I guess the rampant transmisogyny is in character, but it just felt like the book was breaking the fourth was and going 'wow, shyamalan plot twist! are you entertained??'. In a bad way, I mean. The author built up the entire plot only to go 'actually it was all wrong despite telling you it was true XD'. I really don't want to waste my time with other works from this author on the chance it's more of this type of plot twists.
Content Warnings:
minor asian racism [ch*nese wh*spers game], blood,
medium date rape drugs, rape, self harm, suicide baiting, suicide, slut shaming, transmisogyny, school shooting,
major slaughterhouse abuse, animal abuse, animal rights, animal gore, child abuse, child neglect, murder, child death, classism, animal abuse, sibling on sibling child abuse, child neglect, manipulation, abuse, pedophilia / csa / grooming attempt.
What a fucking let down. I really liked the formatting of it being a podcast transcript with interviews. I like odd and mixed ways to convey a story, like in Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall. I appreciate the use of italics to emphasize who is speaking, whether a conversation is happening, and so on. It broke up the monotonous feeling of an endless skype chat transcript. They felt natural and decently paced.
The lack of conclusion to any supernatural plot was disappointing. Why include that? I felt it could have been tied into what happened with the dead female character well enough, but that's just me. The mention of social media is pretty accurate, at the time of publishing and my reading of it. Most inclusions of social media are fumbled misunderstood uses of the big scary internet.
If you read this book, skip that last chapter, the final 'youtube video transcript' one. It made me feel like I wasted the 1 and a half hour spent reading this book. I guess the rampant transmisogyny is in character, but it just felt like the book was breaking the fourth was and going 'wow, shyamalan plot twist! are you entertained??'. In a bad way, I mean. The author built up the entire plot only to go 'actually it was all wrong despite telling you it was true XD'. I really don't want to waste my time with other works from this author on the chance it's more of this type of plot twists.
Content Warnings:
minor asian racism [ch*nese wh*spers game], blood,
medium date rape drugs, rape, self harm, suicide baiting, suicide, slut shaming, transmisogyny, school shooting,
major slaughterhouse abuse, animal abuse, animal rights, animal gore, child abuse, child neglect, murder, child death, classism, animal abuse, sibling on sibling child abuse, child neglect, manipulation, abuse, pedophilia / csa / grooming attempt.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Addiction, Xenophobia, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Torture, Suicide, Stalking, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Murder, Mental illness, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Child death, Child abuse, Bullying, Animal cruelty, and Animal death
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Mass/school shootings, and Rape
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