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collegiate_assessor_kovalyov'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? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Kidnapping and Violence
Moderate: Gun violence, Racial slurs, and Racism
Minor: Suicide and Vomit
miniingrid's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Graphic: Death, Excrement, Gore, Racial slurs, Islamophobia, Medical trauma, Racism, Murder, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Sexism, and Violence
Minor: Suicide and Infidelity
lzad's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Both sharply funny and despairingly bleak. The unendearing characters have one thing in common, they're where they are because they have screwed up. Royally.
It's hard to care about anyone in the book (except one), but you can't help but be fascinated by all of them.
Definite edge of your seat finish.
Next one please!
Graphic: Kidnapping, Physical abuse, and Violence
Moderate: Racism and Religious bigotry
fogwalrus's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Kidnapping
vitsa's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Murder, Kidnapping, and Racism
grahamiscool's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Murder and Kidnapping
maggies's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Islamophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail
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
marianneiriss's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Cursing, Kidnapping, Racial slurs, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, and Islamophobia