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eliel's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Xenophobia, Body horror, and Racism
Moderate: Gore
uranaishi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Murder, Confinement, Kidnapping, Racism, and Hate crime
Moderate: Racial slurs, Body shaming, Blood, Bullying, Cursing, Abandonment, Violence, Fatphobia, Police brutality, Alcohol, Death, Classism, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Alcoholism, Medical content, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, War, Drug abuse, Outing, Gun violence, Infidelity, Misogyny, Drug use, and Homophobia
meganpbennett's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
We open with River making a mistake that gets him sent to Slough House, with the Slow Horses. A time later, things start slowly happening, with a journalist being investigated. This section is very very slow, and the timeline is so convoluted as to be "wibbly wobbly", making it very hard to figure out what's happening in the present time or what happened in the past, or even, what's not happening, what didn't happen.
The kidnapping and the actual plot involving who the kid is and why he was kidnapped is awful and many sections seemed unnecessary.
I found the first half far too slow, and the second half was way too full of sections where a character would say that he knew things and then the next sentence would be "so he told them".
The character's names were far too similar; I gave up around the middle of the book ever figuring out who was who and why I should care about them. The writing was decent and the thriller aspect was good, but the pacing was way off, and the "so he told them" lines started getting frustrating very early on.
Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Hate crime, Violence, Death, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cursing, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Islamophobia, Racism, Gore, Kidnapping, and Religious bigotry
smitinghedgehog's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Moderate: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Blood, Torture, Fatphobia, Gore, Islamophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Racism, Religious bigotry, Suicide, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Sexism, Violence, and Vomit