305 reviews for:

Mirror Girls

Kelly McWilliams

3.92 AVERAGE

dnsemanek's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

candyms's review against another edition

4.0

mysterious sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

hatonkinson_23's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

lizardslovebooks's review against another edition

3.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

barktea's review against another edition

2.0

mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kary2012's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

flint_'s review against another edition

3.25

challenging emotional informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

fro_alchemist's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sandy_keeks's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

melbsreads's review

3.75

challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content warnings: racism, death of a grandparent, death of a parent (in the past), systemic racism, racial slurs, assault, mentions of war, slavery (in the past)

This sounded like it was going to be a more horror-y version of The Vanished Half. And, like, it WAS that but it also very much wasn't. A lot of the time it felt like the horror aspects fell by the wayside in favour of the civil rights movement, and yet it's set (from memory) before Emmett Till and before Rosa Parks. I'm not saying there was no civil rights movement before those events, but it just feels...oddly placed historically.

Anyway, I enjoyed this a lot. The characters were great. The plot was creepier than I anticipated at times. And the tension in the community was well handled. All in all, it was a solid story, although the pacing wasn't quite what I wanted it to be.