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emtaylor0217's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Child death, Gaslighting, Murder, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, and Emotional abuse
Moderate: Infidelity and Infertility
Minor: Abandonment
eridri'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
4.0
Graphic: Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Child death, Gore, and Murder
outofthepinksky's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Murder, Pregnancy, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Chronic illness, Stalking, Cancer, Infertility, Kidnapping, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Blood, Emotional abuse, and Miscarriage
Minor: Gaslighting, Infidelity, Sexual content, Abortion, Gore, Vomit, Animal death, and Fire/Fire injury
sarah_amy's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Murder, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Child death, Forced institutionalization, and Death
Minor: Abandonment, Death of parent, Infertility, Body shaming, Ableism, Homophobia, Infidelity, Car accident, and Torture
enmcurrie's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
However, personally I hated the fact that it’s made up of incredibly short chapters and like 5 different POVs. It just felt clunky and distracting and when something interesting happened at the end of one chapter it was slightly frustrating to have to wait for 4 more POVs before you got back to it. I think the author is over-reliant on using short and mysterious one liner cliff hangers at the end of each chapter to get you to continue reading it. Additionally, this book is riddled with cliches. Like sooooooo many. I appreciate a good twist here and there but it just felt comical and unbelievable at a point to be honest.
If I could sum it up I would say it’s one of the silliest and yet most addictive books I’ve read. It was definitely a page-turner but I genuinely wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone other than people that struggle to enjoy reading/are in a slump. The whole thing just felt slightly cringey. While it is a more ‘dystopian’ book, I think it’s important to keep it at least somewhat realistic at times, rather than just throwing a bunch of twists in there for the sake of it.
I think the concept and the tension was absolutely fantastic - the execution was just disappointing.
Graphic: Murder, Death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cancer, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Infertility
Minor: Infidelity
risaleel's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Murder, Death, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Cancer, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Grief, and Infidelity
Minor: Death of parent, Abortion, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, and Suicidal thoughts
paulaks's review
- 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
3.25
Graphic: Death, Gaslighting, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Gore, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Chronic illness, and Miscarriage
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Cancer, Medical content, and Pregnancy
laurennom's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Violence, Murder, Medical trauma, Death, Cancer, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
stephanieluxton's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
It's basically 5 books in one as it rotates through five unrelated main characters and their experience with "the one".
There's a lot of little twists and turns and I found myself genuinely not knowing what was going to happen, which is rare and exciting.
The concept felt original, the pace was excellent, the characters all unique and colourful. The concept was well explored and it gives you something to think about. This would make a fantastic book club book.
It's both dark and wholesome.
Graphic: Murder, Violence, Mental illness, Death, Stalking, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Sexual content and Cancer
One of the main characters is a serial killer whostalks and targets young women and kills them with a cheese wire. It's not too graphic but it's a thing.monique1316'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
3.0
Graphic: Infertility, Kidnapping, Murder, Cancer, Grief, Emotional abuse, and Pregnancy