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Exodus by Kate Stewart

6 reviews

theycallmebookish's review

emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Cecilia annoyed me in the first book and she didn’t get better in this one. I still wanted to shake her and force her into therapy because WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU GIRL!? It’s like when you tell a kid to not touch the stove because it’s hot and they run and touch the stove then are surprised that it’s hot. WHY DO YOU NOT LISTEN CECILIA!? I know Frenchmen are hot but cmon! I was a bit thrown when we jumped in time and was a bit confused and also concerned that Cecilia was still acting like a 19 year old but pretending to be an adult. Also, can we just have one relationship between same aged people? All of the relationships in this book have over like a 10 year age gap and the relationships start at 18-19. Maybe it’s because of what I do for a living but that just bothers me a bit. 

But the spice was spicing 🌶️

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Drug use, Gaslighting, Grief, Sexual violence, Gun violence, Death of parent, Blood, Cancer, and Emotional abuse

katelynndzindzio's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Cancer

zc2's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.75

Listen the plot was good, great even but it put me in a 20 day reading slump simply because of how slow everything was. And once you read the main plot point 👀😭… all the timeline does is jump tremendously. Also it was just confusing to keep up with everything and who everyone was. Tobias really just crawled all over my nerves 🙄 like give me a break. I just wasn’t really entertained I guess. I much preferred the first book despite all the lingering secrets.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, Death, Gaslighting, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, and Vomit

kyrstin_p1989's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Heart-breaking. I started this novel hating the protagonist but through the twist and turns of the story truly felt my love for her blossom. She grows up, so much, over the course of the book and that growth is realistic not contrived. The line that everyone on TikTok is devastated over doesn’t disappoint. This book was devastating on several levels but ended on a happy note. Excited to finish the series & get some closure for all the characters’ storylines. The one downside I noticed was some glaringly obvious misspellings that the editor missed but otherwise this book was so enjoyable to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Stalking, Violence, Vomit, Abandonment, Abortion, Cancer, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual violence

coles14_'s review

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, Sexual content, Alcohol, Addiction, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Murder, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

bookedupchick's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

5.0

“I know you…because you know me, and it’s here, in this place that we recognized we’ve known each other all along.” ❤️‍🩹

This FREAKING BOOK. I have emotional whiplash. I experienced ALL THE EMOTIONS. I hated them all and then I grieved for them all and then I freaking LOVED them all. I have loved so deeply and my heart just aches thinking about it. My dark cloud 🖤 😭😭😭

Read this if you like ⤵️

🤫 Secrets
❤️‍🩹 Emotional Reads
⚔️ Enemies To Lovers
2️⃣ Second Chance
👥 Forced Proximity
🌀 Lots of Plot Twists
📚 Trilogy — Book 2

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
🌶🌶🌶/5

Exodus by Kate Steward
The Ravenhood Series Book 2

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Alcohol, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Cancer