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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
hate to be a hater but colleen hoover's review below this was just urgh.. this book was well written and the plot lines and links were so interesting an unexpected and tingly but I feel that the rotating povs were hard to understand because it went along with jarring jumps in time too. small side note is that jewell mentioned just SO many place names and so often but anyway. iyaaz recommended this book and apparently read it all in one sitting but really this was just not for me.
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was good but I wanted it to be better. I thought it was going to be different. You know how much I love sociopaths and cults!! The first part was super slow going for me bc I didn’t like any of the three narrators, but after about three or four of each of their stories, I looooooved all of them. It was good. Fun, quick read. I just wanted a smidge more. Solid three stars.
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
I’ve read many Lisa Jewell books and this one just might be my favorite. I loved the easy back and forth between the characters and timelines. Her writing was intriguing and easy to follow, even with so many characters. I wish we would have gotten more back story about how the parents just let these people move into their house. We did get some of that, but It felt incomplete. I still don’t trust Henry.
If you want a book full of a buncha whackadoos, this is the book for you! When you throw a cult, a suicide pact, a creepy house inheritance, and missing children into one tale, you can't go wrong! Errr come to think of it, I guess you could go pretty darn wrong with it...but Jewell didn't. I trusted next to no one and with each chapter and each character flushed out, all I could think was
And then things kept progressing and I was like
And then more doors (both real and metaphorical) were opened and I'm like
By the end, I was at peace with all this dang craziness.
I love when suspenseful twisty fun books like this have multiple POVs because you don't initially know who to believe. I loved all the characters and by love I mean I was intrigued, horrified, repulsed and drawn to them all at once. I'm a little sad that this wasn't a 700 page book where I could have learned the full story of each and every one of them. The end felt a bit rushed to me. It was a bit too tidy fairy tale for Libby with a little "muwhahahaha I'm still a crazy psychopath biding my time" thrown in for good measure - it didn't quite live up to the slow burn intrigue that the rest of the book gave me. This was my first Lisa Jewell and I'll definitely be picking up more of her when I need a good page-turner.
4 Stars
And then things kept progressing and I was like
And then more doors (both real and metaphorical) were opened and I'm like
By the end, I was at peace with all this dang craziness.
I love when suspenseful twisty fun books like this have multiple POVs because you don't initially know who to believe. I loved all the characters and by love I mean I was intrigued, horrified, repulsed and drawn to them all at once. I'm a little sad that this wasn't a 700 page book where I could have learned the full story of each and every one of them. The end felt a bit rushed to me. It was a bit too tidy fairy tale for Libby with a little "muwhahahaha I'm still a crazy psychopath biding my time" thrown in for good measure - it didn't quite live up to the slow burn intrigue that the rest of the book gave me. This was my first Lisa Jewell and I'll definitely be picking up more of her when I need a good page-turner.
4 Stars
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes