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Exodus by Kate Stewart

15 reviews

theycallmebookish's review

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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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bookishspy's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This hurt. Like, wow, I think I spent like half the book crying

I didn't expect that, honestly. I was having so much fun with the characters and the relationship blossoming and them bam... tears. 

Don't think a book has ever made me cry that much. My heart broke for her. 

I have to say, though, the toxicity of the people in this book is astounding to me, like they can't think for themselves at all for some reason? But overall, I can't say I didn't love this whole story

I was a little disappointed in the way it played out with Sean, and obviously, I'm sad about Dom.. but that ending was.. not enough grovelling tbh

Also, I don't think I want to read the last book. It seems unnecessary at this point? Maybe I will one day, but for now, I'm content leaving it here

➛ 𝟒 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬

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tiana_king's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Despite her being 6 years older she spent most of the book being a whinny child. I get that she experienced something traumatic and then was cut off from everyone but lord she should’ve seen a therapist. Instead she self sabotaged at every opportunity. I’m confused on the back slide in quality this book had compared to the first. But I’m gonna read the last book anyway. 

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kat1105's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75


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kyrstin_p1989's review

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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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jfb0622's review

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Never sobbed so hard while reading a book. 

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hq_reads's review against another edition

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dark emotional 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

4.5

I was addicted to this story! I did not expect this book to go in this direction - I could not stop reading. This was quite emotional, I loved it but it was very toxic. Readers be warned.

I love Tobias. I cannot be anyone else for Cecelia. BUT… I CANNOT FORGIVE HIM FOR TATTOOING HER WITHOUT CONSENT! That was the most fucked up shit ever and I am SEETHING it was him all along. I don’t know why that triggered me so much but I thought it was such a violation of her body <\spoiler>

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jen1804's review against another edition

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

1.5

This book is about 30 pages of answers and 400 pages of crap. I don’t know how this gets as many 4 and 5 star ratings as it does!?!?!?!? The number of times I wanted to DNF this book… absolute waste of my time.
I can’t understand how an author can write so many words and yet tell the reader nothing? This book is chaotic, repetitive, overly dramatic and all the characters are so angry and hostile all the time. It’s so poorly written that half the time I’ve not got a clue WHY they’re so angry because the whole thing is so evasive and their extreme emotions are rarely explained. The first 70% of this book is 100% a 1 star, it’s boring and the one bit of action which passes for interesting again doesn’t make sense at the time and what follows is more evasiveness, gahhhhh. All the relationships explored in this book are so toxic and the FMC is so pathetic, whiny and dislikable. It gains a 0.5 because at least I got given some answers at the end of this book to help explain what the hell has been going on. It has left me feeling as though the entirety of book one was redundant though and I’m not left satisfied with how it ends but I shall not be reading book three.
Satisfactory ending? Nope.

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coles14_'s review

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2.75


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mypatronusisajedi's review

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

3.0


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